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Professor Bruce Hood
Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society
Professor Bruce Hood
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Professor Bruce Hood
MA, MPhil(Dund), PhD(Cantab)
Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society
Area of research
Cognitive Development
Office 3D28
12a Priory Road,
Clifton,
Bristol
BS8 1TU
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 8570
bruce.hood@bristol.ac.uk
Research summary
My research interests include:
- Cognitive development from a neuroscience perspective.
- Face and gaze processing.
- Inhibitory control of thoughts and actions.
- Spatial representation and action.
- Naïve theories.
- The origin of adult magical reasoning from children’s natural intuitions.
Recent & Current grants
- MRC: Dynamic Gaze Processing in Typical and Atypical Populations
- Leverhulme Trust: Psychological Essentialism Towards Sentimental Objects
- Perrott-Warrick Fund: An Investigation of the Cognitive Processes that Support Paranormal Beliefs
- Bial Foundation: Neural correlates of sympathetic magical belief.
PHD students supervised
- Kate Longstaffe (co-supervised with Prof. I.D. Gilchrist)
Recent publications
- Nurmsoo, ED, Einav, S & Hood, BM 2012, ‘Best friends: children use mutual gaze to identify friendships in others’. Developmental Science, vol 15., pp. 417-425
- Hood, BM, Gjersoe, NL & Bloom, P 2012, ‘Do children think that duplicating the body also duplicates the mind?’. Cognition, vol 125., pp. 466-474
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