内容简介
Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—andthat’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabrisand Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famousexperiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientificfindings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t workthe way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the worldas they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot.
Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers withtheir own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoningto reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In theprocess, they explain:
? Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that itsown analysts know will fail
? How a police officer could run right past a brutal assaultwithout seeing it
? Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes
? What criminals have in common with chess masters
Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers withtheir own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoningto reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In theprocess, they explain:
? Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that itsown analysts know will fail
? How a police officer could run right past a brutal assaultwithout seeing it
? Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes
? What criminals have in common with chess masters