ABSTRACT
Without stark demonstrations, no one would suppose that visual misperceptions like the Müller-Lyer illusion in Figure 8.1 could occur. Similarly, gross logical illusions parallel to the surprising but indisputable visual illusions would not seem plausible without examples strong enough to catch the person who needs to be convinced. But we now have examples at hand where sophisticated subjects (such as people who might read a book like this) are prompted to clear intuitions that make no sense, as all of us see an unmistakable apparent difference in length that does not exist in the Müller-Lyer drawing. And without the evidence of experiments like those reviewed in Chapter 7, defaulting to inappropriate social contexts would seem implausible, though here it is harder to convince a reader that she too can be caught. But I will make an attempt in Chapter 10. We have enough in hand (from Chapter 7) to leave no reasonable doubt that students in experiments can be strikingly caught, which in fact makes it rather naive to doubt that professors can be caught too.
