About the Authors

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and his PhD in experimental psychology from Cornell University. His primary research explores the limits of awareness and memory, the reasons why we often are unaware of those limits, and the implications of such limits. He also maintains an active interest in research best practices and cognitive interventions. He is a Fellow and Charter Member of the Association for Psychological Science and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and he received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (in the area of perception/motor performance). He and Christopher F. Chabris jointly received the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize in Psychology and coauthored the New York Times bestselling book The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us. He has authored more than 100 publications, and he currently serves as a Special Associate Editor for Registered Replication Reports at Perspectives on Psychological Science.