Christopher Chabris

Since 2001, more than two hundred people who have been invited to speak on American college and university campuses have been “disinvited” before they could give their talks. It is easy to find news accounts of these events—or non-events. The most recent...

Every so often, textbook publishers send me free copies of their books. Usually these are books for courses I teach, but sometimes they aren't. This week I received a copy of Discovering the Scientist Within: Research Methods in Psychology from Worth...

Last Friday, The Wall Street Journal published "A Simple Solution for Distracted Driving," an essay that I wrote with Daniel Simons. We argued that all smartphones should come equipped with a Driving Mode—an easily activated or default setting that would...

In her recent New York Times essay "Are College Lectures Unfair?" Annie Murphy Paul, a science writer, asks "Does the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male, and affluent?" She spends the rest of the...