{"id":8,"date":"2007-01-31T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/dont-miss-the-gorilla"},"modified":"2007-01-31T04:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T09:46:00","slug":"dont-miss-the-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/dont-miss-the-gorilla","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t miss the gorilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2004\/02\/you_see_only_wh.html\">this interesting article<\/a> on how &#8220;focussed&#8221; humans become when they have a specific task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Picture yourself watching a one-minute video of two teams of three players each. One team wears white shirts and the other black shirts, and the members move around one another in a small room tossing two basketballs. Your task is to count the number of passes made by the white team &#8211; not easy given the weaving movement of the players. Unexpectedly, after 35 seconds a gorilla enteres the room, walks directly through the farrago of bodies, thumps his chest and, nine seconds later, exits. Would you see the gorilla?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><strong>Fifty percent of all observers do not see the gorilla.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See this interesting article on how &#8220;focussed&#8221; humans become when they have a specific task at hand. Excerpt: Picture yourself watching a one-minute video of two teams of three players each. One team wears white shirts and the other black shirts, and the members move around one another in a small room tossing two basketballs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/dont-miss-the-gorilla\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t miss the gorilla<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}