![]() In his early years at the University of Hertfordshire, Wiseman partnered with Simon Singh on a BBC segment about lying for the National Science Week. He went from there to the University of Hertfordshire, becoming Britain's first professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology. In his years as a street performer he learned how to adapt or get out of what you are doing because "Sometimes you would start your act and after five minutes there was no audience." He moved to Edinburgh where he obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. He shared accommodation as a student with Adrian Owen, later also to become a psychologist. It happened to me at about age eight.Īt 18 he continued as a street performer and went to University College London to study psychology, partly because it "was right around the corner". You open that book when you're in the library, and go "this is for me". ![]() Like most magicians I got into magic really young. ![]() His mother a seamstress and his father an engineer, he learned his trade as a teenage magician working the crowds in Covent Garden. ![]() Richard Wiseman was born and raised in Luton. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |