Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things, by Richard Wiseman, Ph.D. Reviewed by Paul Lutenske, Branch Head, Butman-Fish Library
(Basic Books, 2007, $26.00, 323 pp.)
Psychologist (and amateur magician) Wiseman has spent many years examining some of the “quirkier” aspects of everyday life. This book relates many of his (and other researchers’) findings in a very accessible, insightful and often humorous way. He tackles subjects as wide-ranging as astrology, lying and deception, speed dating and, in a chapter titled “The Search for the World’s Funniest Joke”, humor. (The photo of the author in a white lab coat, holding a clipboard, and standing in the middle of the road next to a man in a chicken suit is quite amusing.) Quirky indeed. And very interesting too.
(Basic Books, 2007, $26.00, 323 pp.)
Psychologist (and amateur magician) Wiseman has spent many years examining some of the “quirkier” aspects of everyday life. This book relates many of his (and other researchers’) findings in a very accessible, insightful and often humorous way. He tackles subjects as wide-ranging as astrology, lying and deception, speed dating and, in a chapter titled “The Search for the World’s Funniest Joke”, humor. (The photo of the author in a white lab coat, holding a clipboard, and standing in the middle of the road next to a man in a chicken suit is quite amusing.) Quirky indeed. And very interesting too.
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