Christopher Chabris
Cognitive scientist, professor, author 'Nobody's Fool' (http://bit.ly/3Wm7rCa) & 'The Invisible Gorilla,' essayist, chess master, poker player, game lover
- Reposted by Christopher ChabrisIn time for the @pennchibe.bsky.social meeting, our paper about how the number of alternatives influences physician decision-making. #MedSky #BehaviouralScience jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- An important set of ideas to counter the growing burden of fraudulent scientific publications: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Christopher ChabrisVery happy that our paper is officially out at Management Science! Ever wondered if on-the-job experience can mitigate ubiquitous behavioral biases? Well, wonder no more... With amazing serial co-authors @cfchabris.bsky.social and @michellemeyer.bsky.social pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
- Reposted by Christopher ChabrisPsychology research finds people are often overconfident. Open questions in that work that were addressed in a cool paper studying tournament chess players. My latest for @psychtoday.bsky.social with a shout-out to @cfchabris.bsky.social and Daniel Simons. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulte...
- Reposted by Christopher ChabrisMost people are overconfident even in the face of extensive, objective performance feedback: "Overconfidence persists in tournament chess, a real-world information environment that should be inhospitable to it." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40808249/
- "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).
- We found that people's choices of which patient should get a treatment can be influenced by the presence of irrelevant extra patients (an example of the attraction effect). This occurred for both laypeople and clinicians when considering ventilator assignment.
- We also found that people often endorse general rationing policies that contradict the specific choices they would make when presented with hypothetical patients. They also prefer not to incorporate factors like patient race, sex, education, and income when creating a policy.
- 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)
- Please have a look at our Geisinger Program Evaluation (GPE) job advertisements, and consider applying yourself—or distributing our ads to anyone you think might be interested. (2/2) GPE Associate Director: michellenmeyer.com/uploads/2/2/... GPE Staff Scientist: michellenmeyer.com/uploads/2/2/...
- 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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- Reposted by Christopher ChabrisToday is the day! The Creativity Choice is out! Starting to see pictures in the wild. Some book bites in my latest newsletter. That I hope get people wanting to come for more: open.substack.com/pub/creativi...
- 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!
- We’re hiring! tinyurl.com/GeisingerBIT Geisinger’s Behavioral Insights Team is looking for a new Staff Scientist. We conduct large pragmatic trials of behavioral science-informed interventions to improve health outcomes, with work published/forthcoming in Nature Hum Behav, PNAS, JAMA Netw Open 1/2
- 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)
- It was an honor to host world-renowned cognitive scientist and NM Prof. Chris Chabris @cfchabris.bsky.social to explore what cognitive science teaches us about chess thinking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8a...
- Can is a great guy with infectious enthusiasm and I highly recommend his Youtube videos, as well as his unique series of Chessable courses, for anyone interested in getting better at chess.
- 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? ...
- Now that LLM-based AI tools can analyze data on their own, @chiraag.bsky.social decided to test whether they notice the gorilla, or whether they also seem to experience inattentional blindness—like humans who fail to notice the "invisible gorilla" that @profsimons.bsky.social and I wrote about ...
- I guess the title of Chiraag's report gives away the result! But it's a good read anyhow: chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-e... Original Yanai & Lercher 2020 paper: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- 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...
- Reposted by Christopher ChabrisThe Harvard Effect: www.forbes.com/sites/jonath... @cfchabris.bsky.social
- 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!
- Thrilled to welcome 3 new faculty members to Geisinger's Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences: Stephanie Kraft, @byrdnick.com & @katesaylor.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing them continue their great work. You can read more about the department here: www.geisinger.edu/gchs/researc....
- 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....
- People who rated their social skills higher did worse on a 3-test objective measure of social ability (r = –.26 & –.37, N=505 & 422). This was not the case for general intelligence: people who rated their intelligence higher were not meaningfully worse at cognitive ability tests (r = –.04, N=422).
- Reposted by Christopher Chabrison Daniel Kahneman: what a profound loss. he was an intellectual giant, and as close to the platonic ideal of a scientist as one can hope to see in this life. i’ll add to the enormous pile of anecdotes people have shared with 3 of my own that hopefully convey what an enormous influence he had.
- 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
- Reposted by Christopher ChabrisCongrats to @profsimons.bsky.social & @cfchabris.bsky.social for making the cover of the WSJ Review section with an essay adaptation of their new book, Nobody’s Fool, out Tuesday wsj.com/articles/why-we-get…
