Join us for a talk with Professor Dan Simo ns\, co-author of Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can D o About It. This program is \;brought to you in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Illinois Mis/Disinformation Task Force and p ublic libraries across Illinois. \;
\nAbout Dr. Daniel J. Simons
Dr. Daniel J. Simons is a professor of psychology at the University
of Illinois where he heads the Visual Cognition Laboratory. In addition to
his position in the Department of Psychology\, he has courtesy appointmen
ts in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising and the Gies Colleg
e of Business. His research explores the limits of awareness and memory\,
the reasons why we often are unaware of those limits\, and the implication
s of such limits for our personal and professional lives. He is the co-aut
hor\, with Christopher Chabris\, of the 2023 book \;Nobody's Fool: Why
We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It \;as well as the 2010&nbs
p\;New York Times \;bestseller\, \;The Invisible Gorilla: How Our
Intuitions Deceive Us. He has published more than 100 scholarly papers and
has penned articles for the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, th
e Chicago Tribune\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and the Chronicle of Higher Edu
cation\, and many other outlets. His work has been featured in science mus
eums worldwide. In addition to his talks for academic audiences\, he speak
s regularly to companies\, organizations\, societies\, and the broader pub
lic. Dr. Simons has won awards for his teaching and mentoring\, and he cur
rently teaches undergraduate statistics and graduate courses on research p
ractices\, speaking and writing for broad audiences\, and special topics r
elated to attention and awareness.