3 Quotes & Sayings By Bruce Hood

Bruce Hood is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Pleasure Trap, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Samuel Johnson Prize. He has also published a number of peer-reviewed articles on the evolution of eating behaviour and obesity. He is currently a lecturer in psychology at Lancaster University.

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Unravelling the complexity of human development is a daunting task and it is unlikely that scientists will ever be able to do so for even one individual, because the interactions of biology and environment are likelihoods and not certainties. There are just too many ways that the cards could stack up. More importantly, as the vernacular saying goes, "Shit happens", which is a very succinct and scientifically accurate way of saying that random events during development can change the course of who we become in unpredictable ways. Bruce Hood
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Ego depletion comes from American psychologist Roy Baumeister, who believes that enduring something stressful exhausts our capacity for willpower to the extent that we give in to our temptations that we would rather avoid. Bruce Hood