by Richard Wiseman · PAN BOOKS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447273387
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«Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives» is Richard Wiseman's popular science essay, published by Pan Books in paperback.
Richard Wiseman applies the scientific method to everyday oddities: charisma, the influence of birth dates, signs of infidelity and the keys to humour. He explains how surnames shape life, what gait reveals, why men should write personal ads and what the world's funniest joke is.
The book has 320 pages. Main Market edition published on 15 January 2015; the work originally appeared in 2007.
For curious readers with an interest in psychology and popular science who seek entertaining explanations of everyday human behaviour.
Richard John Wiseman is a professor of the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He has written several psychology books. He has given keynote addresses to the Royal Society, the Swiss Economic Forum, Google and Amazon. He is a fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a patron of Humanists UK. Wiseman is also the creator of the YouTube channels Quirkology and In59Seconds.
