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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Bruce M. Hood is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology. Their research spans various domains within psychology, with a primary focus on psychological well-being and life satisfaction, COVID-19 and mental health, as well as evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Illusory Essences: A Bias Holding Back Theorizing in Psychological Science, 2021, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Benefits of a psychoeducational happiness course on university student mental well-being both before and during a COVID-19 lockdown, 2021, published in Health Psychology Open
  • A systematic review of the effect of university positive psychology courses on student psychological wellbeing, 2022, published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Evaluation of a credit-bearing online administered happiness course on undergraduates' mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, published in PLoS ONE
  • The origins and development of attachment object behaviour, 2020, published in Current Opinion in Psychology

Bruce M. Hood's collaborations reveal a frequent engagement with several co-authors, notably:

  • Sarah A. Jelbert
  • Catherine Hobbs
  • Laurie R. Santos
  • Cameron Brick
  • Vebjørn Ekroll

The scientist has published multiple articles in prominent journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Health Psychology Open
  • Higher Education

Bruce M. Hood's academic focus encompasses several fields and subfields of study, which include:

  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science

Their main research topics cover:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

In addition to research articles, Bruce M. Hood has contributed to academic books. Notably, they have a publication titled The Science of Happiness, published in 2024 by Rowman & Littlefield.

Among their recognitions, Bruce M. Hood was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Adult's Eyes Trigger Shifts of Visual Attention in Human Infants

    BM Hood;JD Willen;J Driver

  • The stress of the transition to university: A longitudinal study of psychological disturbance, absent-mindedness and vulnerability to homesickness

    Shirley Fisher;Bruce M. Hood

  • Are You Looking at Me? Eye Gaze and Person Perception

    C. Neil Macrae;Bruce M. Hood;Alan B. Milne;Angela C. Rowe

  • Two Intact Executive Capacities in Children with Autism: Implications for the Core Executive Dysfunctions in the Disorder

    James Russell;Christopher Jarrold;Bruce Hood

  • Look into my eyes: Gaze direction and person memory

    Malia F Mason;Bruce M Hood;C Neil Macrae

  • Eye remember you: the effects of gaze direction on face recognition in children and adults

    Bruce M. Hood;C. Neil Macrae;Victoria Cole-Davies;Melanie Dias

  • Children prefer certain individuals over perfect duplicates

    Bruce M. Hood;Paul Bloom

  • Predicting the Outcomes of Physical Events: Two‐Year‐Olds Fail to Reveal Knowledge of Solidity and Support

    Bruce Hood;Susan Carey;Sandeep Prasada

  • Gravity rules for 2- to 4-year olds?

    Bruce M. Hood

  • Gravity biases in a non‐human primate?

    Bruce M. Hood;Marc D. Hauser;Linda Anderson;Laurie Santos

  • The Effect of Creative Labor on Property-Ownership Transfer by Preschool Children and Adults

    Patricia Kanngiesser;Nathalia Gjersoe;Bruce M. Hood

  • Looking and search measures of object knowledge in preschool children

    Bruce Hood;Victoria Cole-Davies;Melanie Dias

  • Children with autism are neither systematic nor optimal foragers

    Elizabeth Pellicano;Alastair D. Smith;Filipe Cristino;Bruce M. Hood

  • Picasso Paintings, Moon Rocks, and Hand-Written Beatles Lyrics: Adults' Evaluations of Authentic Objects.

    Brandy N. Frazier;Susan A. Gelman;Alice Wilson;Bruce M. Hood

  • Is visual search really like foraging

    Iain D Gilchrist;Alice North;Bruce Hood

  • The self illusion : how the social brain creates identity

    Bruce Hood

  • Gravity does rule for falling events

    Bruce M. Hood

  • Picture yourself: Self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children.

    Bruce Hood;Sandra Weltzien;Lauren Marsh;Patricia Kanngiesser

  • The intention to act improves unilateral left neglect : two demonstrations

    Ian H. Robertson;Daniele Nico;Bruce M. Hood

  • Illusory Essences: A Bias Holding Back Theorizing in Psychological Science.

    Cameron Brick;Cameron Brick;Bruce Hood;Vebjørn Ekroll;Lee de-Wit

  • Cognitive neuroscience of attention: A developmental perspective

    Bruce M Hood;J Atkinson;O Braddick

  • Adult's eyes trigger shifts of visual attention in human infants

    Bruce M. Hood;J.Douglas Willen;Jon Driver

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain D. Gilchrist
Iain D. Gilchrist University of Bristol
Laurie R. Santos
Laurie R. Santos Yale University
Janette Atkinson
Janette Atkinson University College London
Oliver Braddick
Oliver Braddick University of Oxford
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University
Susan Carey
Susan Carey Harvard University
Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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