Richard Wiseman

Richard Wiseman (born 1966 ) is a British psychologist.

Wiseman worked as a professional magician before he began studying psychology in London. Today, Wiseman works as head of the psychology department at the University of Hertfordshire. His main area of ​​research which made ​​him known beyond England, is next to happiness and delusion in particular the paranormal. In this regard, Wiseman is considered as a skeptic. He examined, among other things, at the urging of the castle staff in large-scale experiments alleged Spukphänomene at Hampton Court Palace and concluded from their results that can be apparitions mostly explained by the effect of physical effects on the tense human psyche. Wiseman explored as a year the humor of the internet users from 70 countries on a website called Laughlab.

2012, Wiseman was concerned with the practical implementation of the approach of William James in behavioral psychology. And he has the book " Make - do not think " written to show how one can practically bring about behavioral changes to use such as positive thinking without methods.

The psychologist has been written eight books, some of which advanced into Germany bestsellers, including "How to make her fortune " (2003), " monkey arm" ( 2004) and " Quirkologie " (2008).

Publications (selection)

  • Guidelines for Testing Psychic Claimants ( co-author RL Morris), University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield 1995, ISBN 0900458585
  • Guidelines for Extrasensory Perception Research ( co-author J. Milton ), University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield 1997, ISBN 0900458747
  • Deception and Self - Deception: Investigating Psychics, Prometheus Press, Amherst 1997, ISBN 1573921211
  • Magic in Theory: An Introduction to the Theoretical and Psychological Elements of Conjuring. ( Co-author P. Lamont ), University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield 1999, ISBN 1902806506
  • Laughlab: The Scientific Search for the World's Funniest Joke, Random House, London 2002
  • The Luck Factor, Random House, London 2003, ISBN 0712623884
  • Did You Spot the Gorilla? How to Recognise Hidden Opportunities in Your Life, Random House, London 2004, ISBN 0099466430
  • Parapsychology ( co-author C. Watts), Ashgate, Aldershot 2005, ISBN 0754624501
  • Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives, Pan Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 0330448110, (German: Quirkologie: The scientific exploration of our everyday life, Fischer, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 359617483X )
  • 59 seconds, Pan Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 023074429X, ( dt: how to change your life in 60 seconds, Fischer, 2010, ISBN 3596185173 )
  • Paranormality: Why We See What Is not There, Pan Macmillan, 2011 ISBN 0230752985, (German: paranormal: Why we see things that are not there, Fischer, 2012, ISBN 3596192358 )
  • Rip it Up: The Simple Idea did Changes Everything, Pan Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 0230752071
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