Recent publications

• Journals
• Poster presentations
• Invited Talks
• Book Reviews

Journals

•  Kanngiesser, P., Santos, L. R., Hood, B., Call, J. (in press). The Limits of Endowment Effects in Great Apes. Journal of Comparative Psychology.

• Kazanina, N., Baker, S., Seddon, H & Hood, B.M. (2011). When throwing is not catching: children’s understanding of intentionality of transfer verbs. BUCLD 35 Proceedings.

• Pellicano, L., Smith A.D., Briscoe, J., Christo, F., Hood, B. & Gilchrist, I.D. (2011). Reply to Nemeth and Janacsek: Children with autism learn to search differently in a large-scale context. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi:10.1073/pnas.1102268108

•  Lindemann, M., Reikki, T. & Hood, B.M. (2011). Is weaker inhibition associated with supernatural beliefs? Journal of Culture and Cognition, 11, 231-239.

• Baker, S.T., Gjersoe, N.L., Sibielska-Woch, K., Leslie, A.M. & Hood, B.M. (2011). Inhibitory control interacts with core knowledge in toddlers’ manual search for an occluded object. Developmental Science, 14, 270–279.

• Hood, B.M., Gjersoe, N.L., Donnelly, K., Byers, A. & Itakura, S. (2011). Moral contagion attitudes towards potential organ transplants in British and Japanese adults. Journal of Culture and Cognition

• Pellicano, L., Smith A.D., Briscoe, J., Christo, F., Hood, B.M & Gilchrist, I.D. (2010). Children with autism are neither systematic nor optimal foragers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1014076108

• Baker, S.T., Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2010). The Opposites task: Using general rules to test cognitive flexibility in preschoolers. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11(2), 240-254.
• Hood, B.M., Donnelly, K., Leonards, U., & Bloom, P. (2010). Implicit voodoo: electrodermal activity reveals a susceptibility to sympathetic magic. Journal of Culture and Cognition, 3(4), 391-399.
• Kanngiesser, P., Gjersoe, N.L., & Hood, B.M. (2010). The Effect of Creative Labour on Property-Ownership Transfer by Preschool Children and Adults. Psychological Science, 21(9), 1236-1241.
• Smith, A.D., Hood, B., & Gilchrist, I.D., (2010). Probabilistic cueing in large-scale environmental search. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory & Cognition, 36(3), 605-618.
• Smith, A.D., Gilchrist, I.D., Hood, B., Tassabehji, M., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Inefficient search of large-scale space in Williams Syndrome: further insights on the role of LIMK1 deletion in deficits of spatial cognition. Perception, 38(5), 694-701.
• Frazier, B.N., Gelman, S.A., Wilson, A., & Hood, B. (2009). Picasso paintings, moon rocks, and hand-written beatles lyrics: adults’ evaluations of authentic objects. Journal of Culture and Cognition. 9, 1-14.
• Smith, A.D., Hood, B.M., & Gilchrist, I.D. (2008). Visual search and foraging compared in a large-scale search task. Cognitive Processing, 9, 121-126.
• Einav, S. & Hood, B.M. (2008) Tell-Tale Eyes: Children's Attribution of Gaze Aversion as a Lying Cue. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1655–1667.
• Hood, B.M. (2008) How brains develop. Nature, 453, 157.
• Smith, A. D., Gilchrist, I. D., Cater, K., Ikram, N., Nott, K., & Hood, B. M. (2008). Reorientation in the real world: The development of landmark use and integration in a natural environment. Cognition, 107, 1102-1111.
• Hood, B.M. & Bloom, P. (2008) Children prefer certain original objects over perfect duplicates. Cognition, 106, 455-462.
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• Past publications

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Poster Presentations

• Donneley, K. What do children understand when they look at pictures? A false photo task revisited (March 2011) Society for Reseach in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
• Gjersoe, N.L. Totems, temples & teddies; The cognitive science of why we revere special objects. Goldsmiths University Anomolistic Psychology External Lecture Series, January 2011.
• Kanngiesser, P., Hood, B. (January 2011). Spontaneous Ownership Protest in 2- and 3-year olds Following the Investment of Creative Labour. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest (HU)
• Van Voorst, A. Between Beliefs and Behavior: The case of magical contagion. (January, 2011). Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual meeting 2011. San Antonio, USA.
• Donneley, K. When Pictures Lie: Children’s misunderstandings of photographs (September, 2010). British Psychological Society. Developmental Section Conference, Goldsmiths University, London.
• Van Voorst, A. Between Beliefs and Behaviour: The case of magical contagion (September, 2010). ESRC Social Cognition Network and Training Scheme (SCONET). University of Kent, Canterbury
• Van Voorst, A. Between Beliefs and Behavior: The case of magical contagion (September 2010), British Psychological Society (BPS) Social Psychology Section Conference 2010. Winchester.
• Kanngiesser, P., Gjersoe, N., Hood, B. (2010). "Because I made it!" - Creative Labour and Ownership in Children and Adults. International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore (USA)
• Gjersoe, N.L., Hood, B.M. & Bloom, P. (2009) The development of mind-body dualism through early childhood. Society for Research into Child Development Biennial Conference – Denver Hyatt, April 2009.
• Donneley, K. Implicit sympathetic magical beliefs in adults as revealed by destruction of photographs of childhood attachment objects. (March 2009). Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Denver, USA.
• Gjersoe, N.L.(2009) Language and Kinds in Dynamic Object Individuation. Society for Research into Child Development Biennial Conference – Denver Hyatt, April 2009
• Baker, S., Murray, K., & Hood, B. (2009, October). Entrenched folk physical beliefs held by typically developing children and children with autism. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Meeting, San Antonio, USA.
• Baker, S.T., & Hood, B.M. (2009, April). Children's expectations about weight and speed in falling objects: The younger the judge, the better? Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Donnelly, K., Leonards, U., Bloom, P., & Hood, B.M. (2009, April). Implicit sympathetic magical beliefs in adults as revealed by destruction of photographs of childhood attachment objects. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Gjersoe, N.L., Hood, B., M., & Bloom, P. (2009, April). The development of mind-body dualism through early childhood. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Nurmsoo, E., Einav, S., & Hood, B. M. (2009, April). Best friends: Children's sensitivity to social information in gaze. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Denver, CO.

Invited Talks

• Kanngiesser, P., Gjersoe, N., Hood, B. (2010). "Because I made it!" - Creative Labour and Ownership in Children and Adults. CDC Opening Conference, Central European University, Budapest (HU)
• Gjersoe, N.L. One in a million: Attentional and affective biases for unique individuals. Kyoto University External Seminar Series, November, 2010.
•  Gjersoe, N.L. When we learn not to believe everything we see. Developmental Group External Seminar Series. Oxford-Brooks University, 2009.  
• Gjersoe, N.L.  Neural correlates of sympathetic magic. CUBRIC CSF Group Meeting, November 2009

Book Reviews

• Einav, S. (2004) Review of 'Children’s unspoken language' by Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003. In British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2004), 22, 311–315.

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