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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Conrad,
I appreciate your feedback, but I think the comparison to audiobooks is unfair. I suggest you look at the prices at http://learnoutloud.com/. Remember that my goal is to keep the podcast free for the majority of listeners.
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