Black Sheep: The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad
$39.53
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2016
Summary
Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention in 2009 for his research on the psychological benefits of swearing as a response to pain. Now, fresh from winning the 2014 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, Richard’s first popular science book uncovers other pieces of surprising and occasionally bizarre scientific enquiry showing that what we at first perceive as bad can, in fact, be good.
More pub conversation than science book, Richard’s writing style is very ac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473610842 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473610842 |
| Author: | Dr Richard Stephens |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray One |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Dr Richard Stephens
Dr. Richard Stephens is the winner of the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014. He is a lecturer at Keele who married a human statue and races cars in his spare time. His research on the psychological benefits of swearing has been the focus of international media attention including television appearances on BBC’s The One Show and Stephen Fry’s Planet Word. Richard and his team picked up an Ig Nobel Prize in 2010 in recognition of science that “first makes you laugh and then make you think”. Richard is a founder member of the international Alcohol Hangover Research Group and Chair of the British Psychological Society Psychobiology Section.
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