Daniel Lawrence Schacter (born June 17, 1952) is an American psychologist.
Schacter has written three books, edited seven volumes, and published over 200 scientific articles and chapters.
The seven sins are: Transience, Absent-Mindedness, Blocking, Misattribution, Suggestibility, Persistence, and Bias.
In 2012 he said in an interview to the American Psychologist journal that our brain is like a time machine, or to be precise, it works as a virtual reality simulator.
[9] In 2005 Schacter received the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences.