Skeptics on the Fringe:Matthew Smith-Go Luck Yourself!The Psychology Of.........
Hosted by Edinburgh Skeptics Society
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Speaker
Dr Matthew Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University, where he teaches psychological research methods, and contributes to the MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (only the second course of its kind in the UK). After nearly twenty years he’s revisiting the psychology of luck (the topic of his PhD 15 years ago with Richard Wiseman).
You can follow him on twitter: @dr_matthewsmith (http://www.twitter.com/dr_matthewsmith)
Talk
Matthew leads us on a journey through a range of psychological research that suggests that ‘luck’ may not be the uncontrollable beast it first appears! By rethinking what luck is, is it possible to tame it… and even learn to be lucky?