Daniel Simons
@profsimons
Prof @ U. of Illinois. Co-author of Nobody's Fool (coming July 11: https://t.co/IBYKpp4TD0) and The Invisible Gorilla. Fond of wearing gorilla suits in public.
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http://dansimons.com 04-07-2010 11:44:19
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Just preordered The Purest Bond, a new book coming Tuesday from my friend and colleague Dr. Jen Golbeck 🇺🇦🏳️🌈 The Golden Ratio (and Stacey Colino). If you like dogs and science, you should too. Looking forward to reading it! simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pure…
Friends! You can finally read an excerpt from The Purest Bond. The The Wall Street Journal is running it this weekend and we are so excited to finally give you a glimpse at the more sciencey side of the book. Read here wsj.com/health/wellnes… and you can buy a book here amzn.to/40DuJH1 💛
We've selected Nobody's Fool for the 2023 Non-Obvious Book Award Longlist! Congratulations to Daniel Simons Christopher Chabris, and the entire team at @basicbooks. @non_obvious #nonobvious #incmagazine
Sometimes you SHOULD meet your heroes! I talked to Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons and their new book Nobody's Fool, scams and their famous invisible gorilla video.
“We all will fall for the right scam.” -Psychologist Daniel Simons
In this week’s episode, how scammers manipulate our minds to get what they want. And what psychology can teach us about spotting – and fighting – a scam.
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How is it that we can easily fall victim to a scam? What can we do to avoid being duped?
Daniel Simons & Christopher Chabris (The Invisible Gorilla💎) address these issues in their new📕.
I recommend you read it and listen to these 3 fantastic conversations with 3 great interviewers 👀 🧵👇🏽
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm recruiting graduate students to launch the Social Perception Lab UIUC Psychology Department in Fall 2024!
See our lab website at socialperception.org and feel free to drop me a line if you're interested in applying!
Suspect primes, and holding the 'warmth effect' to the fire… An exclusive extract from 'Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It' (Basic Books) by @ProfSimons and Christopher Chabris Basic Books.
RT for your chance to win a copy!
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How can we avoid being taken in? Daniel Simons explains on Curious Minds at Work bit.ly/458sDj7 Daniel Simons Basic Books University of Illinois #awareness #attention #nobodysfool
It's pub day in the UK for the print edition of NOBODY'S FOOL! Australia and New Zealand in a week or so. Ebook and audio already available everywhere. Translations in 10+ languages coming too. Christopher Chabris Basic Books
I'm very excited to say that Daniel Simons and I are guests on the latest episode of David Eagleman's 'Inner Cosmos' podcast, talking about NOBODY'S FOOL. Inner Cosmos was recently the 9th most popular podcast (out of five million) on Apple Podcasts!
omny.fm/shows/inner-co…
I'm back! Episode 80!
I'm happy to finally share my convo w/ Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. They're stellar cognitive scientists, and their new book is on the psychology of how we fall for scams and cons.
Listen at all the podcast places: buff.ly/3QRIpeJ
We had a fun, wide-ranging chat with Guy Spier 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 in this episode of his podcast, The Education of a Value Investor. The site has links to both audio and video. Christopher Chabris
guyspier.com/daniel-simons-…
Even tech pros like Jason Perlow is on Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads who write about the dangers of phishing emails can be fooled by the right message (especially if they haven't had coffee yet): zdnet.com/article/this-a…