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Christopher Chabris

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American cognitive psychologist and co-author, with Daniel Simons, of the 1999 invisible-gorilla study and the 2010 trade book that followed it. Trained at Harvard, he now researches collective intelligence and individual differences in cognition at Geisinger. His work tends to dismantle popular intuitions about the mind — that memory is reliable, that confidence tracks competence, that we notice what is in front of us.

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