Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (Hardcover) by Bruce M Hood

from ElectricRay

I heard Bruce Hood talking on Radio 4 and was sufficiently interested in what he had to say to buy his book - after all, a popular science writer engaging on the question of *why* we are impelled to believe in the supernatural, rather than intolerantly railing about how deluded people are that do...

from Diwanna

This book was a bit different than I expected. First, it advocates supernatural beliefs, although not in the traditional sense. Second, it's mainly a book about child development. Bruce Hood states that we are born with instincts and learn things through a developed sense of intuition when we're ...

from john257hopper

This is a fairly interesting book about the nature and origin of irrational or supernatural belief - taking these terms not necessarily in a derogatory sense, but as representing a spectrum of non-scientifically verifiable views from mainstream religious beliefs, through belief in ghosts and fort...

from Citizenjoyce

When Hood says that he knows his readers are superstitious otherwise they wouldn't be reading his book, that took me back a little. Those of us who are not religious on occasion want to know why others are. He does indeed wind some things around to fit his theories, but some of his theories expla...

from CynthiasPicks

Interesting premise--we are programmed to see faces/gods in patterns and relationships--but ultimately bogged down in extraneous detail. Rambling.