Christopher Chabris Bücher

Von Phishing-Mails über Schneeballsysteme bis hin zu Fake News – tagtäglich werden wir mit Täuschungen oder Betrug konfrontiert. Gerade in unserer heutigen Zeit wird es für uns immer schwieriger, Wahrheit von Fälschung zu unterscheiden. Die Psychologen und Bestsellerautoren Daniel Simons und Christopher Chabris beschreiben in diesem Buch unsere wichtigsten Denkmuster, die uns zwar den Alltag erleichtern, uns aber auch höchst anfällig dafür machen, Täuschungen auf den Leim zu gehen. Anhand spektakulärer echter Betrugsfälle zeigen sie, wie es uns gelingt, Irreführung, Schwindeleien und perfide Betrugsmaschen zu erkennen und uns vor ihnen zu schützen, bevor es zu spät ist. Das Buch gibt spannende Einblicke in die menschliche Psyche und ist ein Muss für alle, die sich nicht für dumm verkaufen lassen wollen.

A series of stories and scientific findings to explore why the mind does not function the way people perceive, revealing how our intuitions often get us into trouble

Two New York Times-bestselling psychologists explain the science of cons--and how we can avoid them From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody's Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris show us how to avoid being taken in. They describe the key habits of thinking and reasoning that serve us well most of the time but make us vulnerable--like our tendency to accept what we see, stick to our commitments, and value precision and consistency. Each chapter illustrates their new take on the science of deception, describing scams you've never heard of, and shedding new light on some you have. Simons and Chabris provide memorable maxims and practical tools you can use to spot deception before it's too late. Informative, illuminating, and entertaining, Nobody's Fool will protect us from charlatans in all their forms--and delight us along the way.

Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot. Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.