Christopher Chabris
Cognitive scientist, professor, author 'Nobody's Fool' (http://bit.ly/3Wm7rCa) & 'The Invisible Gorilla,' essayist, chess master, poker player, game lover
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- An important set of ideas to counter the growing burden of fraudulent scientific publications: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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- "The Creativity Choice," a new book by @z-i-pringle.bsky.social, should be a great read for anyone interested in putting creative impulses and ideas into practice! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dr-zo...
- I'm very happy that Pedram Heydari, @michellemeyer.bsky.social, and I have published our study on the internal inconsistencies in the choices that laypeople and medical clinicians make about rationing scarce treatments (such as ventilators and drugs during the Covid pandemic).
- At Geisinger we have created a new team to conduct and publish rigorous evaluations of important health system initiatives, programs, and interventions. I'm one of the faculty co-directors of this group and I'm happy to say we have two new positions open! (1/2)
- Clay Shirky on the impact of generative AI on learning: "As with calculators, there will be many tasks where automation is more important than user comprehension, but for student work, a tool that improves the output but degrades the experience is a bad tradeoff." www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...
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- If you want to work with me and an amazing team of behavioral scientists and other colleagues on improving health decisions, please consider joining our group at Geisinger as a staff scientist!
- I had a great time talking last week with fellow cognitive scientist and chess master @drcanchess.bsky.social, and you can watch the whole thing! (or listen on Can's "The Chess Cognition Podcast" on your favorite podcast platform)
- A lot to reflect on in this must-read essay by Jason Zweig about the surprising (or not surprising) death of Daniel Kahneman.
- An accurate description and perceptive lament of just one way needless academic paperwork keeps on piling up. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
- Rooting out scientific fraud and deception is one of the most important things scientists can do. Finally, an authoritative guide!
- Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
- A fun 2020 paper by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher found that many students who were given a data set to analyze, along with specific questions to answer about it, failed to notice that a scatterplot of the points formed an image of a gorilla. But can AI models spot the gorilla? ...
- I've been waiting for the answer to this question for a long time, but if I could have just one wish, it would be for people to stop mixing their large mammal business metaphors by saying "that's the invisible gorilla in the room." www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGEH...
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- Pleased to see that the Yale Peabody Museum has included the invisible gorilla (by @profsimons.bsky.social and me) in their new exhibit on perception, attention, and memory! Other museums that have exhibited our work: American Museum of Natural History, Exploratorium, Wellcome Collection, & MONA.
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- Our department at the Geisinger Research Institute is adding a group of great new faculty members!
- If you haven't yet bought my amazing book w/ @profsimons.bsky.social on how fraud, scams, and cheating really work, now you have no excuse. Amazon has lowered the Kindle price to $3.99, but who knows how long that will last, so don't wait to get a copy! www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Fool...
- How well do people know their own social abilities? Patrick Heck, Matt Brown, and I ran two studies (total N=927) that revealed a surprising pattern: a negative relationship between people's self-rated skill and actual performance for social ability. swisspsychologyopen.com/articles/10....
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- Happy 2024! If you have resolved this year to get conned less often (or not at all), to not be taken in by misinformation and deceptive marketing, and to evade fraud and scams as much as possible, you should read my book with @profsimons.bsky.social: NOBODY'S FOOL dansimons.com/NobodysFool....
- So honored to be both generatable by generative AI, and in the company of these other generatable classics! — Christopher Chabris, co-author of THE INNVISIIIBLEEGOR ILLLA
- At Geisinger we have several open positions for empirical researchers at the intersection of behavioral science & health: • Predoctoral fellow (starting ASAP) • Postdoctoral fellow (starting ASAP) • Faculty, open rank (flexible) Ads & application info: tinyurl.com/BehSciJobs
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