LATEST ONLINE EXPERIMENTS
Participate in an experiment examining contagious laughter
here.
TALKS AND EVENTS
May 2008: Prof Wiseman will present the annual Bristol Neuroscience
lecture. Details here.
April 2008: Prof Wiseman will MC 'An Evening With James Randi
and Friends' in London, involving Chris French, Simon Singh, Ben Goldacre,
Susan Blackmore and James Randi. Details here.
March 2008: Prof Wiseman talks about Quirkology and reveals
the results of The Name Experiment at the Edinburgh
International Science Festival.
March 2008: Prof Wiseman talks about Quirkology at the Cambridge
Science Festival.
March 2008: Prof Wiseman talks about Quirkology
at the Brighton
Science Festival.
March 2008: Prof Wiseman talks about LaughLab at the Hayward
Gallery (South Bank, London).
February 2008: Prof Wiseman presents The Darwin Lecture at
the University
of Central Lancashire.
February 2008: Prof Wiseman will host The People Watchers,
a new BBC1 20 part series on social psychology.
January 2008: Prof Wiseman and colleagues present an evening
on the psychology of dance at the Dana Centre. Details here.
January 2008: Prof Wiseman will be the keynote speaker on
the maiden voyage of Cunard's Queen Victoria ship. Details here.
January 2008: Prof Wiseman will announce his research into
New Year's Resolutions at the Dana Centre. Details here.
December 2007: Prof Wiseman will present
an evening at the Dana Centre on handedness. Details here.
November 2007: Prof Wiseman's You Tube channel obtains over
3 million views here.
October 2007: Forbes.com carries Prof. Wiseman's article
on the psychology of opportunity here.
October 2007: Prof Wiseman to speak at the APRU, Goldsmiths
College, University of London.
October 2007: Prof Wiseman to speak at the Science
Learning Centre East of England.
September 2007: Prof Wiseman to present the Drever Lecture
at the University
of Dundee.
September 2007: Prof Wiseman's work on ghosts exhibited at
Permanent Gallery in Brighton. Click here.
June 2007: Prof Richard Wiseman will speak about
Quirkology at the Cheltenham
Science Festival, 10 June.
May 07: Curious
Psychology: First quirkology video posted on website, click here.
May 07: The
Daily Telegraph on the quirkology of giving, and the secret psychology
behind your surname, click here.
Take part in the online experiment here.
May 07: New Quirkology website launches here
May 07: Read The Times feature on the Qurikology
of personal ads here
April 2007: Read The
Guardian’s selected extracts from Prof Richard Wiseman’s
new book, Quirkology.
March 2007: Prof Richard Wiseman will be presenting
a public lecture on the psychology of humour at the Newcastle
Science Festival.
February 2007: Prof Richard Wiseman will be making regular appearances on BBC2's The Culture Show, conducting lie detection tests on several celebrities to uncover the truth about the culture they consume.
February 2007: The Daily Telegraph asked Prof Richard Wiseman to create an large-scale experiment into the psychology of social networks. Find out what happened here.
January 2007: Prof Richard Wiseman will be once again speaking at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas. More details here.
January 2007: Join Prof Richard Wiseman at London's Dana Centre to explore the psychology of New Year's Resolutions. More details here.
December 2006: Take part in Prof Richard Wiseman's new online research into the psychology of Christmas here.
December 2006: Prof Richard Wiseman will be a guest speaker at the EPSRC 'Memories for Life Colloquium' at the British Museum. Details here.
November 2006: Prof Richard Wiseman and Simon Singh travel to New York to perform Theatre of Science off-Broadway, as part of the 2006 science+art festival. Show details here.
November 2006: Prof Richard Wiseman travels to Tokyo to participate in a science communication conference at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.
September 2006: Prof Richard Wiseman will be presenting
a series of lectures during the Oxford
University Discovery Programme on board the Queen Mary 2.
July 2006: Prof Richard Wiseman publishes two
papers on parapsychology in the British Journal of Psychology.
July 2006: Prof Richard Wiseman will be speaking and conducting a mass participation experiment at the New Zealand Science Festival.
April 2006: Prof Richard Wiseman will carry out a mass participation experiment into the science of speed dating at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
March 2006: Simon Singh and Richard Wiseman perform their Theatre of Science show at the Newcastle Science Festival.
January 2006: Las Vegas: Prof Richard Wiseman will speak about the psychology of the paranormal at TAM4 in Las Vegas.
January 2006: Dublin: Prof Richard Wiseman and Dr Simon Singh will present their Theatre of Science show at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition on 12, 13 and 14 January in Dublin.