4.⁠ ⁠The Science of Happiness - Bruce Hood

Professor Bruce Hood is Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at the University of Bristol in the UK. His research focuses on cognitive development in children, spatial representation and action, the origin of adult magical reasoning from children’s natural intuitions and for the past several years has been running a course at Bristol called the Science of Happiness. Apart from his academic work, he is very well-known for his public communication of science and has appeared on various radio and tv programmes in the UK, presented the Royal Institutions Christmas Lectures and has written several popular science books including 'SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable', 'The Self Illusion: Why There Is No 'You' Inside Your Head' and 'Possessed: Why Do We Want More Than We Need?'https://brucehood.com/Bruce Hood's Faculty Page: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Bruce-Hood-6de6dd5c-4eb7-4d97-bb22-31aba1416ffc/'The Science Of Happiness' publisher's page: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Science-of-Happiness/Bruce-Hood/9781398526372Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hood_(psychologist)Twitter: https://twitter.com/profbrucehoodAlumni blog post on Science of Happiness: https://alumni.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2019/10/11/the-science-of-happiness/The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cluster-f-theory-podcast/id1736982916Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5V4bBn54hiImeoyDNmTcIr?si=729367e48b0940d9Thank you for reading The Cluster F Theory Podcast. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com