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In psychology, this bias is known as inattentional blindness: when focusing on a particular task or object literally blinds us to something that others can easily see.

Roi Ben-Yehuda: Awakening to Women: The Nobel Effect Roi Ben-Yehuda 2011

In psychology, this bias is known as inattentional blindness: when focusing on a particular task or object literally blinds us to something that others can easily see.

Roi Ben-Yehuda: Awakening to Women: The Nobel Effect Roi Ben-Yehuda 2011

In psychology, this bias is known as inattentional blindness: when focusing on a particular task or object literally blinds us to something that others can easily see.

Roi Ben-Yehuda: Awakening to Women: The Nobel Effect Roi Ben-Yehuda 2011

Yet the trouble really begins with the title, "Now You See It," which refers to the "gorilla" experiments of Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris that demonstrated what they have called "inattentional blindness."

Masters of Distraction Mark Changizi 2011

This is the phenomenon known as inattentional blindness: when you ask people to look for something specific, they develop a startling inability to see things in general -- even things that would normally be glaringly obvious.

Kathryn Schulz: Check, Please: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto 2010

But I fell prey to something called inattentional blindness.

Domain Name Wire 2010

The author sees evidence of inattentional blindness everywhere, from Mr. Raskin's need to segment his workspace to our educational system's tendency to overrate test scores because they're salient and easily compared.

Masters of Distraction Mark Changizi 2011

But in fact, it is not clear that the specific phenomenon of inattentional blindness—as defined by Messrs.

Masters of Distraction Mark Changizi 2011

Previous studies have shown that people wearing headphones – or who are distracted because they are talking on a mobile phone – can be affected by "inattentional blindness", a reduction in attention to external stimuli that has also been dubbed "iPod oblivion".

Listen up: wearing headphones can endanger life, study finds 2012

On the contrary, it is a counterbalance on your checklist -- a way to prevent inattentional blindness, and an acknowledgment that we need more than one strategy to ward off error.

Kathryn Schulz: Check, Please: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto 2010