"SuperSense": Bruce Hood on Believing the Unbelievable
/Episode 34 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Bruce M Hood, author of SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable .
Dr. Hood is a developmental psychologist with a long-standing interest in why people believe weird things. In SuperSense, he argues that innate cognitive structures (how we think without being taught) give people a natural tendency toward belief in the supernatural. Our intuitive sense of how the world works is often at odds with the findings of modern science.
In this interview we discuss the evidence for these conclusions and their implications.
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