Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It

From two New York Times-bestselling psychologists, an engaging master class in how to foil purveyors of false promises (Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting) 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 Nobodys 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 vulnerablelike 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 youve 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 its too late. Informative, illuminating, and entertaining, Nobodys Fool will protect us from charlatans in all their formsand delight us along the way.