Author

Daniel Simons

3 books, mostly psychology, for Basic Books and HarperCollins, 2010–2023

Daniel J. Simons is an experimental psychologist and professor at the University of Illinois, where he directs the Visual Cognition Laboratory. He is the co-author, with Christopher Chabris, of The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (2010) and Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It (2023). His writing brings research on attention, perception, memory, intuition, and deception to general audiences through popular-science books and essays.