Richard Wiseman (1) (1966–)
Auteur de 59 secondes pour prendre les bonnes décisions
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A propos de l'auteur
Richard Wiseman, Ph.D. is Professor of Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire
Œuvres de Richard Wiseman
Petit traité de bizarrologie : La science derrière l'étrangeté de la vie quotidienne (2007) 973 exemplaires
Petites expériences extra-sensorielles - Télépathie, voyance, hypnose...: Télépathie, voyance, hypnose... Le… (2011) 433 exemplaires
Did You Spot the Gorilla?: How to Recognise the Hidden Opportunities in Your ... (1999) 78 exemplaires
PUZZLED 1: 101 Cunning conundrums 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Wiseman, Richard
- Nom légal
- Wiseman, Richard John
- Date de naissance
- 1966
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Études
- University College London (Psychology)
University of Edinburgh (PhD|Psychology) - Professions
- professor
psychologist
magician
speaker
television commentator
radio commentator (tout afficher 7)
creative consultant - Organisations
- Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
University of Hertfordshire
British Science Association
The Inner Magic Circle - Prix et distinctions
- CSICOP (Public Education in Science Award ∙ 2000)
BAAS (Joseph Lister Award ∙ 2002)
NESTA DreamTime Fellowship (2004) - Courte biographie
- Richard Wiseman, based at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, is Britain's only professor for the Public Understanding of Psychology and has an international reputation for his research in unusual areas, including deception, luck, humor and the paranormal. A passionate advocate for science, Wiseman is well-known for his media appearances, high-profile talks, live demonstrations, and mass-participation studies. Wiseman also regularly acts as a creative consultant for print, broadcast, and new media. He is the psychologist most frequently quoted by the British media, and his research has been featured in more than one hundred fifty television programs in the United Kingdom. [adapted from 59 Seconds (2009)]
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Paranormalitet : hvorfor vi ser det som ikke er der par Richard Wiseman
This book has a lot of QR codes in it, I haven't read a book before where I had to use my phone to get "extra" material. I'm not sure if I like it, as it brought me out of the book a lot and I had to "wait" to continue. Overall the book is much more about psychology than I expected it to be. It's okay enough, with some bad jokes in between (that are so bad that you have to laugh).
Finally a book of the kind I was looking for: data, data, data on cognitive psychology experiments - and not boringly presented.
OK, some of the stuff might be presented in a slightly watered-down fashion and perhaps exaggerated, but one can always go check.
The catchy title is just an excuse for a book dense with facts.
OK, some of the stuff might be presented in a slightly watered-down fashion and perhaps exaggerated, but one can always go check.
The catchy title is just an excuse for a book dense with facts.
Finished 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman (3/5).
Books in the self help genre tend to promise quick fixes grounded in little evidence (and, not uncommonly, contradicting actual evidence). Psychological literature sometimes has validated advice, but much of it, not surprisingly, requires a large investment of time and effort. Wiseman wanted to share the scientifically validated but easy to apply tips that people could use to improve their lives.
The number of quick tips which have evidence behind them are few and lack the miraculous impact self help books promise. In this single volume, Wiseman covers many of the stable topic of self help -- happiness, persuasion, motivation, creativity, attraction, stress, relationships, decision making, parenting, and personality. It works out to only about 30 pages per topic (compare that to the shelves of self help books on each topic).
You can read the book if you want more background, but here's a taste[1]:
- Listing things you are grateful for or things that have gone well increases happiness
- Acts of kindness, even small ones, increase happiness. Donate, give blood, buy a surprise gift.
- Placing a mirror in front of people when they are choosing food reduces consumption of unhealthy food
- Plants in the office seem to boost creativity. Possibly by reducing stress and improving moods
- Write about your deepest feelings about your relationships to increase the odds of the relationship lasting. Writing tends to remind people of all the good things about the relationship.
- People lie less over recorded communication media (like email).
- When speaking, liars tend to have less detail, use more ummms and aaahs, and use less self reference words (I, me, my)
- Praise a child's effort, not their ability.
- Visualize yourself working through the process of achieving your goal rather than the actual success. Visualization from a third person perspective seems to be more effective.
Some criticisms: The first is specific to the quality of this as an audio book. Many of the "In 59 seconds" summaries at the end of each chapter involve forms or checklists. These make for tedious listening, and it's not very useful to just have them in audio. It would have been nice for the audio book to come with supplementary material for all of these forms.
I don't know if it's the author or the research community, but the chapters on relationships and attraction seem to exude a subtle sexism. Almost all of the tips and studies mentioned describe men as active agents and woman as passive agents. This active/passive division was not the conclusion of some study (and, therefore, worth considering even if I don't like the result). Rather, they were baked into the setup of the studies. For example, a couple of studies focused on how various factors such as a man's confidence or a woman's breast size affected behavior in a night club (results were not surprising). In each of these studies, regardless of what was being varied, the researchers decided to use a setup where men were always the approachers and woman the approached. This was, to put it mildly, annoying.
Finally, this is a book that you should read for its content, not the quality of its writing. It's not bad, but it can be formulaic.
Since I tend to prefer books categorized as "psychology" over those categorized as "self help", many of these tips were not new to me. However, if you want a concise look at the science of improving your life, this book fulfills that goal.
[1] Dear Amazon/Audible, when I buy the audio version of a book, it would be really nice if I were allowed full text capabilities on the
Search Inside version when it exists. Pretty please?… (plus d'informations)
Books in the self help genre tend to promise quick fixes grounded in little evidence (and, not uncommonly, contradicting actual evidence). Psychological literature sometimes has validated advice, but much of it, not surprisingly, requires a large investment of time and effort. Wiseman wanted to share the scientifically validated but easy to apply tips that people could use to improve their lives.
The number of quick tips which have evidence behind them are few and lack the miraculous impact self help books promise. In this single volume, Wiseman covers many of the stable topic of self help -- happiness, persuasion, motivation, creativity, attraction, stress, relationships, decision making, parenting, and personality. It works out to only about 30 pages per topic (compare that to the shelves of self help books on each topic).
You can read the book if you want more background, but here's a taste[1]:
- Listing things you are grateful for or things that have gone well increases happiness
- Acts of kindness, even small ones, increase happiness. Donate, give blood, buy a surprise gift.
- Placing a mirror in front of people when they are choosing food reduces consumption of unhealthy food
- Plants in the office seem to boost creativity. Possibly by reducing stress and improving moods
- Write about your deepest feelings about your relationships to increase the odds of the relationship lasting. Writing tends to remind people of all the good things about the relationship.
- People lie less over recorded communication media (like email).
- When speaking, liars tend to have less detail, use more ummms and aaahs, and use less self reference words (I, me, my)
- Praise a child's effort, not their ability.
- Visualize yourself working through the process of achieving your goal rather than the actual success. Visualization from a third person perspective seems to be more effective.
Some criticisms: The first is specific to the quality of this as an audio book. Many of the "In 59 seconds" summaries at the end of each chapter involve forms or checklists. These make for tedious listening, and it's not very useful to just have them in audio. It would have been nice for the audio book to come with supplementary material for all of these forms.
I don't know if it's the author or the research community, but the chapters on relationships and attraction seem to exude a subtle sexism. Almost all of the tips and studies mentioned describe men as active agents and woman as passive agents. This active/passive division was not the conclusion of some study (and, therefore, worth considering even if I don't like the result). Rather, they were baked into the setup of the studies. For example, a couple of studies focused on how various factors such as a man's confidence or a woman's breast size affected behavior in a night club (results were not surprising). In each of these studies, regardless of what was being varied, the researchers decided to use a setup where men were always the approachers and woman the approached. This was, to put it mildly, annoying.
Finally, this is a book that you should read for its content, not the quality of its writing. It's not bad, but it can be formulaic.
Since I tend to prefer books categorized as "psychology" over those categorized as "self help", many of these tips were not new to me. However, if you want a concise look at the science of improving your life, this book fulfills that goal.
[1] Dear Amazon/Audible, when I buy the audio version of a book, it would be really nice if I were allowed full text capabilities on the
Search Inside version when it exists. Pretty please?… (plus d'informations)
In 1853 Michael Faraday was looking into "table-turning", a fashionable paranormal activity at the time. Trying to disprove it, of course, to show what is really going on, scientifically.
He concluded his investigation into the science of table-turning by noting that he was somewhat ashamed of his work, wishing that ‘in the present age . . . it ought not to have been required’.
As in "we are so advanced and we understand the world so well, how is it still possible for people to believe in paranormal?".
165 year later, people don't seem to be any smarter.
Richard Wiseman concludes his book with "Our minds have helped rid the world of terrible diseases, put a man on the moon, and begun to figure out the origins of the universe. Why then, are they capable of being fooled into thinking that the soul can leave the body, that ghosts exist, and that our dreams really do predict the future?"
It's an interesting book. I've learned a few things about how the mind works.
It was also a bit boring here and there, as Mr. Wiseman insisted on giving all the details of each case studied, even those cases that were less of a learning experience.
And, of course I listen-read the book using Evie Reader, my eVoice reader app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenntt.evoicereader… (plus d'informations)
He concluded his investigation into the science of table-turning by noting that he was somewhat ashamed of his work, wishing that ‘in the present age . . . it ought not to have been required’.
As in "we are so advanced and we understand the world so well, how is it still possible for people to believe in paranormal?".
165 year later, people don't seem to be any smarter.
Richard Wiseman concludes his book with "Our minds have helped rid the world of terrible diseases, put a man on the moon, and begun to figure out the origins of the universe. Why then, are they capable of being fooled into thinking that the soul can leave the body, that ghosts exist, and that our dreams really do predict the future?"
It's an interesting book. I've learned a few things about how the mind works.
It was also a bit boring here and there, as Mr. Wiseman insisted on giving all the details of each case studied, even those cases that were less of a learning experience.
And, of course I listen-read the book using Evie Reader, my eVoice reader app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenntt.evoicereader… (plus d'informations)
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