Richard Wiseman

Every psychologist most knows such psychologist as Watson, Skinner, Pavlov.  All they lived and worked in last century, and had made a big effort in the psychology.  But and today we have professors who are making a new important discoveries in fields of psychology. One of them is Richard Wiseman, professor of the University of Hertfordshire.

As it already been said, Richard Wiseman is the professor of the University of Hertfordshire in UK, and has gained an international reputation for research into quirky areas of psychology, including deception, humor, luck and the paranormal. He was written a three bestselling books (The Luck Factor, Quirkology, 59 Seconds), has been rewarded with Britain's first Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology, and his research were been featured on over 150 television programmers. But why he has chosen so strange fields of psychology? The answer is simple; his origin wasn’t a psychology, in the beginning he was a magician, and was a pretty good one. He then obtained a first class honours degree in Psychology from University College London and a doctorate in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. A side from previous achievements he has also a recipient of The CSICOP Public Education In Science Award in 2000 and the Joseph Lister Award For Social Science in 2002. In 2004 he was awarded a NESTA DreamTime Fellowship for his innovative work in science communication, and in 2005 served as President of the General Section of The British Association for the Advancement of Science. He even helped to create a mind-reading device for IPhone.  Now he has his own website, where you can find a lot of information of his research, one of them involved 350,000 people from 70 countries.

To sum up, psychology is still a very perspective science, with a lot unsearched fields. Richard’s Wiseman’s experiment are very good examples and there is still a lot of researchers who discovers every day something new.