When?
Monday, June 22 at 7:30PM
Where?
Who?
Prof Bruce Hood
What's the talk about?
The majority of the world's population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in God, and a recent Gallup poll found that about three out of four Americans believe in some form of telepathy, déjà vu, ghosts, or past lives.
Where does such supernatural thinking come from? Are we indoctrinated by our parents, churches, and media, or do such beliefs originate somewhere else?
Bruce M. Hood reveals the science behind our beliefs in the supernatural.
Professor Bruce Hood is Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre 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. Bruce 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 a Fellow of the society of American Psychological Science.
Although he does not believe in supernatural powers, Bruce generally enjoys hearing about them as well as all the strange beliefs surrounding them.