Richard Wiseman

Richard Wiseman is the psychologist referenced in 172.好运是什么？为啥说总避雷会败好运？ through the episode’s discussion of luck research and the newspaper photo-counting experiment. The source uses his work to distinguish luck as an attention and behavior pattern from luck as pure fate.

139. 为什么伟大不能被计划：有志者事竟成，吗？ reuses the newspaper experiment inside a broader critique of goal fixation. The episode’s emphasis is that a person focused on executing the assigned task can miss the explicit answer in peripheral text, making Wiseman’s example a bridge between Luck As Information Bandwidth and Objective Deception.

The episode’s version of Wiseman is practical: self-described lucky people are presented as more likely to notice unexpected information, while self-described unlucky people may narrow attention so much that they miss obvious prompts. The wiki should keep that claim source-scoped because the episode uses the research as a life-design frame, not as a full psychology review.

Connections

• Luck As Information Bandwidth - episode’s synthesis of luck as attention and information flow.
• Objective Deception, Novelty Search, and Stepping-Stone Exploration - episode 139’s extension from lucky attention into complex search.
• Availability Heuristic - adjacent cognitive-bias concept in the same source.
• Positive Expectation Training - behavior-training extension from the luck research frame.
• 蜜獾吃书 - show using Wiseman’s work as one explanatory path.