Paul Bloom
Goodreads Author
Born
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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June 2013
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
29 editions
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2016
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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
44 editions
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2010
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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
27 editions
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2013
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The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
20 editions
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2021
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Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
10 editions
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2023
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Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human
21 editions
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2004
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How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
10 editions
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2000
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One Day University Best Lecture Series Presents: Psychology
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2010
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Language and Space
5 editions
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1996
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Language Acquisition: Core Readings
5 editions
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1993
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“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
― How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like
― How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like
“the egalitarian lifestyles of hunter-gatherers exist because the individuals care a lot about status. Individuals in these societies end up roughly equal because everyone is struggling to ensure that nobody gets too much power over him or her. This is invisible-hand egalitarianism.”
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
“And it isn’t a mistake in taste, like believing that the Matrix sequels were as good as the original.”
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
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