Neviditelná gorila - Jak nás intuice klame – Chabris Christopher (2025)

Psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris conducted a series of playful experiments on the phenomenon of inattentional blindness in the late 1990s, demonstrating that our minds do not work as we think they do, with far-reaching practical implications. Their research has entered the annals of psychology as the Invisible Gorilla Test. In this book, they summarize their findings: through vivid examples, hundreds of remarkable experiments, and everyday experiences, they show how our minds play tricks on us. They combine the work of other scientists with their own insights into attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often lead us into trouble. In fact, we miss a lot. This compelling, surprising, entertaining, and intellectually extraordinary book forces readers to reconsider their beliefs about their own perception of the world. Chabris's and Simons's experiments have become classics, and their influence extends far beyond the boundaries of psychology, impacting our understanding of consciousness and rationality. How can a police officer run past a brutal attack without seeing it? Why are measles making a comeback? What can managers learn from meteorologists? The authors are cognitive psychologists who have received awards for their research in a wide...