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Richard J. Wiseman (born 1966) is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=University of Herfordshire Phonebook )〕 His research has been published in peer reviewed scientific journals, and a column in the magazine ''Scientific American'' described him as "…the most interesting and innovative experimental psychologist in the world today".〔 He has written several best-selling popular psychology books that have been translated into over 30 languages. He has given keynote addresses to The Royal Society, The Swiss Economic Forum, Google and Amazon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Richard Wiseman )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Quirkology )〕 ==Education and early life== Richard Wiseman was born and raised in Luton. His mother a seamstress and his father an engineer, he learned his trade as a teenage magician working the crowds in Covent Garden. At 18 he continued as a street performer and went to University College London to study psychology, partly because it "was right around the corner". In his years as a street performer he learned how to adapt or get out of what you are doing because "Sometimes you would start your act and after five minutes there was no audience." He left his magical career, 3 years later, after he did about ten shows in the Magic Castle in Los Angeles in what he describes as an "appalling trip" during which his bag was stolen in Times Square, New York City, while watching a street gang perform the Three-Card Trick. Wiseman realised that "touring around the country, working unsociable hours, all of the time" was not a glamorous life and returned to the U.K. He moved to Edinburgh where he obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. He went from there to the University of Hertfordshire, becoming Britain's first professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology.〔 In his early years at the University of Hertfordshire, Wiseman partnered with Simon Singh on a BBC segment about lying for the National Science Week. The segment spanned TV, radio and print and featured a "politician making a statement, and letting the public vote on whether they thought this figure was telling the truth in each medium." It was the first time that Wiseman and Singh met. From the beginning, the two got along well and on Singh's idea, ended up creating a show together called Theatre of Science. The show aimed to deliver science to the audience in an entertaining manner. Wiseman describes how one stunt involved standing in a cage between two Tesla coils while lightning struck the cage. Wiseman ended up writing ''The Luck Factor'' in part due to Singh as well. With the success of Singh's book, ''Fermat's Last Theorem'', Singh introduced Wiseman to his agent and encouraged him to write a similar book in the psychology arena, which led to ''The Luck Factor''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Wiseman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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