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From: Psychology of the Paranormal Network [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 November 2009 15:52
To: David Green
Subject: Next week's APRU Invited Speaker: Prof Bruce Hood
Hi All,
Full details of Bruce's talk (and all the others in the APRU series) can be found at:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/apru/speakers/
and below. (Please feel free to forward this on but if you do so, encourage people to sign up on our email list to make sure that they are kept informed of any changes to our programme: http://www.gold.ac.uk/apru/email-network/)
SEMINARS ARE HELD ON TUESDAYS AT 6:10 PM IN ROOM 256, RICHARD HOGGART BUILDING, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. All talks are open to staff, students and members of the public. Attendance is free and there is no need to book in advance. For further information, visit http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/apru/speakers.php or contact Tamas Borbely (email: [log in to unmask]).
8 Dec 2009: Professor Bruce Hood
Title: Supernatural Belief: Me or Memes?
Abstract
Where do we get our supernatural beliefs from? And why do some seem more plausible than others? Are we simply just gullible meme-machines or is there some intrinsic origin for the unbelievable? In this talk, I'll exam an idea that as part of our natural reasoning, humans will always generate misconceptions that could easily be fertile ground for believing in the supernatural. Maybe culture simply mirrors and resonates with what we individually believe or would like to believe as a group.
Biography
Professor Bruce Hood is currently the Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the Experimental Psychology Department at the University of Bristol. He has been a research fellow at Cambridge University and University College London, a visiting scientist at MIT and a faculty professor at Harvard. He has been awarded an Alfred Sloan Fellowship in neuroscience, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Infancy Researchers, the Robert Fantz memorial award and was recently voted to Fellowship status by the society of American Psychological Science. He currently holds grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the Medical Research Council, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council to fund research into the origins of supernatural beliefs, the development of face and gaze processing, the development of inhibition and general cognitive development.
Cheers,
Chris
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