Christopher Chabris

Christopher F. Chabris is an American research psychologist born in New York City in 1966. He is a senior investigator at Geisinger Health System and has held posts at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He studied computer science at Harvard, graduating in 1988, and earned a Harvard psychology Ph.D. in 1999 with a thesis on the mechanisms of expertise in chess masters. His research addresses attention, decision-making, collective intelligence, cognitive ability and behavioral genetics. With Daniel Simons he wrote The Invisible Gorilla (2010), on attention and other cognitive illusions, and the pair received an Ig Nobel Prize for the invisible gorilla experiment. He has been a chess master since 1986 and wrote Nobody's Fool in 2023.