To be accepted, we need to change from self-centred, egocentric children into allocentric adults who are focused not just on ourselves, but on others as well. Developing into an individual who is independent but also interconnected with others. We should all make this transformation because the allocentric adult is not only healthier, but happier.

In this talk, Professor Bruce Hood will demonstrate how to go about this transformation. Professor Bruce Hood is an experimental psychologist and philosopher at our university specialising in developmental cognitive neuroscience.

Bruce is a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard University and has contributed to substantial research on cognitive development in childhood. Bruce Hood has curated and delivers a course called The Science of Happiness, at several universities in association with Yale University and is now the basis for the BBC podcast The Happiness Half-Hour co-presented by Bruce. Bruce is also a lifetime fellow of the Association Psychological Science and was President of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association and received the inaugural Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology award from the British Psychological Society. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

The talk can be accessed on TEDxTalks Youtube.