James Bullen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You might have seen it before, but let's have a look.
I'm going to pass you the phone.
It's an awareness test.
It gets everyone.
Yeah.
That's a good PSA.
That's a good PSA.
But I wouldn't feel silly.
It gets absolutely everyone.
It got me the first time I watched this video.
And it's a really good example of this concept called inattentional blindness.
So where we have some sort of cognitive loading, we're doing some complex task, we can miss things that are right in front of our faces.
And it's a kind of bizarre phenomenon that occurs and that has some really serious implications for eyewitness testimony.
That's Dr. Hayley Cullen, a lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University.
This feels counterintuitive.
It's hard to believe.
How could someone miss something right in front of them?
But Hayley says it definitely does happen.
What Kenny and other police at the park don't know is that there's an undercover police officer there too.
He's not in uniform.