![]() ![]() The show aimed to deliver science to the audience in an entertaining manner. From the beginning, the two got along well and on Singh's idea, ended up creating a show together called Theatre of Science. The segment spanned TV, radio and print and featured a "politician making a statement, and letting the public vote on whether they thought this figure was telling the truth in each medium." It was the first time that Wiseman and Singh met. 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 for research supervised by Robert L. He shared accommodation as a student with Adrian Owen, later also to become a psychologist. ![]() Richard Wiseman, Interview The Scotsman 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". ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |