News Stories relating to "luck"

Can luck really influence the outcome of events? Athletes clearly think so: Many baseball players have talismans they carry around with them and perform elaborate rituals before getting up to bat. Investors are also superstitious (and their lucky charms haven't been working lately).

In the April 29th edition of the Wall Street Journal,...

Some people are luckier than others. Some people rely on lucky charms. One extremely lucky man in the UK told a judge he did not get rich from embezzling?he got his money because he won the lottery 80 times.

In the Independent, Graham Keeley reports that a judge became suspicious about Juan Antonio Roca when the police discovered regular...

Dr. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist who studies luck, wants to know if certain people are "born lucky." Are you luckier if you were born during the summer than in the winter? So far, statistics say "yes."

Wiseman is asking people when they were born and if they think they are naturally lucky, then tabulating the results. Despite the fact...

Researcher Richard Wiseman studies how to be lucky. He says lucky charms do work, but only because people believe in them. Some people believe in them so much, they use voo doo to try to influence the outcomes of trials.

Rachel Williams writes in the Pennsylvania News that Wiseman found that carrying a luck charm had no effect on whether...