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Bruce Hood

BRUCE HOOD is currently a professor of developmental psychology in society 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 is the author of several books, including The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs. He was also the 2011 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer—the most prestigious appointment for the public engagement of science in the U.K.—for which he wrote and presented three lectures on the brain, broadcast on the BBC to an audience of over three million viewers.

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