Richard Wiseman

Psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman started his working life as a professional magician, but now he is professor at the University in the United Kingdom. This man is well known - over 1 milion people have taken part in his mass participation experiments and his Youtube channel has received over 10 milion views. Professor Wiseman has written three best selling books: „The Luck Factor“, „Quirkology“ and „59 Seconds“. Ofcourse, he has written more books, but these three are bestsellers.

Richard Wiseman is an author of the unique worldwide experiment. He has invited people from around the world to send the most favourite joke to his website. Scientist‘s aim was to find the joke which is the funniest in the world. Although, some jokes are popular only in some countries, Richard Wiseman considered that there are universal joke that is liked by all people and now, when this experment has finished, we can read the funniest jokes on the Internet (in Richard Wiseman‘s website or in wikipedia). Of course, we can read more about this experiment in Wiseman‘s book Quirkology.

All in all, we can clearly see that proffesor Richard Wiseman is really active psychologist. His experiments are interesting and original and he is liked by a lof of people.

References:
http://www.richardwiseman.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World