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Welcome to the website of psychologist, author and performer Professor Richard Wiseman.

Richard researches the psychology of luck, self-help, persuasion, and illusion.  A passionate advocate for science, his best-selling books have been translated into over 30 languages and he has presented keynote addresses at Microsoft, Caltech, and Google.

Richard is the most followed psychologist on Twitter, has created viral videos that have received over 18 million views, and was recently named as one of the top 100 people who make Britain a better place to live.  Over 2 million people have taken part in his mass participation experiments and he has acted as a creative consultant to Derren Brown, The MythBusters, CBS’s The Mentalist, and Heston Blumenthal.

Richard started his working life as a professional magician, is a Member of the Inner Magic Circle, and holds Britain’s only Chair in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire

Explore the site to discover more about Richard’s work and visit his daily blog on quirky psychology.

Latest news

- In Paranormality, Richard examines how seemingly supernatural phenomena reveal a great deal about your brain and beliefs (available at Amazon UK and Amazon US, Kindle: Amazon UK and Amazon US).

- Richard appears on BBC Radio 4′s Infinite Monkey Cage with Robin Ince, Brian Cox, Bruce Hood and Andy Nyman.  Click here.

- Research magazine interviews Richard about Behavioral Economics here.

- Article on Paranormality appears in Scientific American Mind here.