理查德·怀斯曼（Richard Wiseman），英国著名的大众心理学教授，致力于以科学方法研究人们日常生活中看似无法用理性理解的行为。他是爱丁堡大学的心理学博士，并获剑桥三一学院Perrott-Warrick奖学金，目前负责英国贺福郡大学心理系的一个研究机构。他在直觉、欺骗、运气、幽默和超自然等领域的研究享誉国际。

怀斯曼教授是英国各大报刊杂志最常引用的心理学家。许多世界级顶尖科学期刊报导过他的研究；更多国际媒体如《时代杂志》、《每日电讯报》及《卫报》对他都有专题介绍。他接受过数百个广播与电视节目专访，经常与各界名人合作，在BBC等著名媒体上进行以成千上万人为对象的大规模实验。他的实验还登上过著名的金氏记录。

著有《怪咖心理学》（QUIRKOLOGY）等畅销书，其拥趸遍布全球各个国家。

A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.

Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy.

From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of “rapid change” and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: “Think a little, change a lot.”

From the Hardcover edition.