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The Gorilla Guys

From the psychologists who created the "invisible gorilla" experiment, a blog about how cognitive illusions and mistaken intuitions affect all of us, every day, whether we know it or not. 

Parapsychology
Ghost busters, parapsychology, and the first study of inattentional blindness

Daniel Simons on October 29, 2010

What do ghosts and the paranormal have to do with inattentional blindness?  Read about what may be the first studies of inattentional blindness.  They come from a most unlikely, but seasonally appropriate source.

What do ghosts and the paranormal have to do with inattentional blindness?  Read about what may be the first studies of inattentional blindness.  They come from a most unlikely, but seasonally appropriate source.

Child Development
cognitive and moral limits

Daniel Simons on May 7, 2010

Just as an infant's rudimentary moral reasoning differs from that of an adult, our rapid, intuitive judgments often differ from what we might decide if we took the time to reason it out.

Just as an infant's rudimentary moral reasoning differs from that of an adult, our rapid, intuitive judgments often differ from what we might decide if we took the time to reason it out.

Cognition
Seeing the world as it isn't

Daniel Simons on April 30, 2010

When we look at the world around us, we feel that we are seeing it completely and accurately. That feeling is illusory.

When we look at the world around us, we feel that we are seeing it completely and accurately. That feeling is illusory.