From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, 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 overvalue 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.  

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 About the Authors: Daniel Simons is a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois, where he directs the Visual Cognition Laboratory. Christopher Chabris is a cognitive scientist who has taught at Union College and Harvard University. 

About the Moderator: Diana B. Henriques, a prize-winning financial writer, is the author of many books, including the New York Times bestseller The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, The White Sharks of Wall Street, and Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism, to be released in September 2023 by Random House. 

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