Night School [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2014] Richard Wiseman by Richard Wiseman

Richard is a Member of the Inner Magic Circle, an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association, and a Fellow of the Rationalist Association. 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, Nick Cave, and the West End play ‘Ghost Stories’. Richard is the most followed British psychologist on Twitter, and has created viral videos that have received over 40 million views. He has published over 50 papers in leading peer reviewed academic journals (including Nature and Psychological Bulletin), and his work has been cited in over 20 introductory textbooks.Ī passionate advocate for science, his best-selling books have been translated into over 30 languages and he has presented keynote addresses at several organisations, including Microsoft, The Royal Society, Caltech, and Google.

Richard currently holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, where he has gained an international reputation for research into psychology of luck, self-help, persuasion, and illusion. He then obtained a degree in psychology from University College London and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. Professor Richard Wiseman started his working life as a professional magician, and was one of the youngest members of The Magic Circle. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Professor Richard Wiseman's authoritative, entertaining new book introduces the powerful new science of sleep - and gives us back the missing third of our days.

Studies show that even a small lack of sleep can have a detrimental effect on our health, lifespan and happiness. Learn information and solve problems while you sleep * Find out why nightmares can be good for you, and what your dreams really mean * Unlock the creative power of the six-minute nap * Banish jet-lag, night terrors and snoring * Discover the secrets of the 'super sleepers' - and get the best night's sleep of your life Night School uncovers the scientific truth about the sleeping brain - and gives powerful tips on how those hours of apparently 'dead' time in the dark can transform your waking life.īased on exciting new peer-reviewed research, mass-participation experiments and the world's largest archive of dream reports, Night School will teach you how to: Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep.

Night School [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2014] Richard Wiseman by Richard Wiseman