Richard Wiseman is a professor of the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. He had made many researches in different psychology areas, such as humour, luck, deception and paranormal. Professor Wiseman is well known all over the world for his researches and popular book called “The Luck Factor”.
Despite the fact, that usually people talk about Professor Wiseman while speaking about luck or minds of human kind, the most interesting topic for me is paranormal. I know many psychology students who believe in magic, ghosts and things like that, thus it was very interesting for me to explore what do professionals think about that.
Professor Richard Wiseman investigated many people who had claimed they could do magic things, f.ex, materialize objects in their bare hands. The experiment had shown that no one could do some kind of magical trick under controlled conditions.
Professor Wiseman has examined why do people feel strange feelings in places where ghosts are believed to appear. The professor with his team visited places such as Hampton Court Palace and the Edinburgh Vaults. Some people claim they have experienced apparitions, unusual odours, sudden changes in temperature and a sense of presence there. After the research, Professor Wiseman came to conclusion that people may feel strange in places like these because of magnetic fields, infrasound, and various psychological factors such as prior knowing that you may feel presence and becoming anxious when entering these areas.
In conclusion, it is very good that people from the ‘world of science’, like Professor Wiseman, still care about unusual situations in people lives and try to find answers to questions that interest many of us. This is why we should always try to examine what do professionals say about things we are interested in before making our own decisions.
References: http://www.richardwiseman.com/index.html
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