Richard Wiseman
Richard Wiseman is Britain's only professor for the Public Understanding of Psychology and has an international reputation for his research into unusual areas including deception, luck, humour and the paranormal. He is the psychologist most frequently quoted by the British media and his research...
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Richard Wiseman is Britain's only professor for the Public Understanding of Psychology and has an international reputation for his research into unusual areas including deception, luck, humour and the paranormal. He is the psychologist most frequently quoted by the British media and his research has been featured on over 150 television programmes in the UK. He is regularly heard on Radio 4 and feature articles about his work have appeared prominently throughout the national press.Photo by BDEngler (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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For the giveaway, please click here.I was sent this book, plus a copy to give away to one reader, by the publisher (Pan MacMillan) in exchange for an honest review.I don't know a thing about psychology. Or rather, I didn't before reading this book. Richard Wiseman sets out to write a new type of sel...
Completely debunks all paranormal 'activity' and very funny with it
Finally read the whole thing, and it is worth more than 5 stars. On HappinessFirst, he talked about happiness, and getting people to like you, all based on researches and studies. Self-help books are rubbish because they are based on either common sense (which is already not too bad) or completely n...
Another fast and fun read.A friend of mine brought the Chinese translated version of this book. The best way to do this, is to read this at the same time, so that we could have a discussion.So, I have to temporary stop my other reading and started on this one.The fun fact about the nonsense of astro...
A former magician now a trained psychologist looks at a variety of paranormal phenomenon and explains just why it is that people see ghosts, have predictive dreams, and cetera. Informative, amusing, and entertaining as anything, Wiseman also gives lots of hints for displaying certain superpowers.If ...
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