Richard Wiseman





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Professor Richard Wiseman started his working life as a professional magician, and was one of the youngest members of The Magic Circle. He then obtained a degree in psychology from University College London and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.

Richard currently holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, where he has gained an international reputation for research into psychology of luck, self-help, persuasion, and illusion. He has published over 50 papers in leading peer reviewed academic journals (including Nature and Psychological Bulletin), and his work has been cited in...more


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coverOn Friday I set this puzzle….


What is special about these two sentences?


1)I am not very happy actingpleased whenever prominent scientists overmagnify intellectual enlightenment.


2)Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter, slaughter brings rout.


If you have not tried to solve it, have a go now. For everyone else the answers are after the break.



1) The number of letters in each word increases b...

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Average rating: 3.87 · 5,927 ratings · 622 reviews · 23 distinct works · Similar authors
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Quirkology: How We Discover...
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Paranormality: Why We See W...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,016 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
The Luck Factor: Changing Y...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
Rip It Up
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Did You Spot The Gorilla?
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
The as If Principle: The Ra...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
As If: The Simple Idea that...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012
Deception & Self-Deception
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997
Parapsychology
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005
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“Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.”
Richard Wiseman, Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There

“Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.”
Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

“Albert Einstein once said, “Sit with a beautiful woman for an hour and it seems like a minute, sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour—that’s relativity.”
Richard Wiseman, Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things

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