Books by Bruce Hood
“One very effective demonstration Bruce Hood does in talks is that he’ll hold up a cardigan and say, ‘I guarantee this cardigan is clean. If I pay you 10 pounds, who will wear it?’ And a lot of hands go up. Then he adds, ‘I should mention that it belonged to Fred West, the notorious serial killer.’ And a lot of the hands go back down again. Now, what’s that about? We’ve got this notion that there’s some kind of essence of evil. It’s a contagion that you could catch. It’s a nice illustration that we’ve all got this irrationality.” Read more...
The best books on Paranormal Beliefs
Christopher French, Psychologist
Interviews where books by Bruce Hood were recommended
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Belief: What It Means to Believe and Why Our Convictions Are So Compelling
by James Alcock -
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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
by Stuart Vyse -
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Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
by Richard Wiseman -
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
by Michael Shermer -
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Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
by Bruce Hood
The best books on Paranormal Beliefs, recommended by Christopher French
The best books on Paranormal Beliefs, recommended by Christopher French
Far from being outlandish, a belief in the paranormal appears to be a trait that many human beings share. Christopher French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths and author of The Science of Weird Shit, recommends five books that explore the paranormal—from a skeptical point of view.
