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Wir haben Lust auf etwas, Spass an etwas, finden bestimmte Dinge in hochstem Masse vergnuglich. Aber Vergnugen ist alles andere als ein einfaches Phanomen. Unsere Bedurfnisse, Wunsche, Vorlieben gehen uber die Symmetrie eines hubschen Gesichts, uber zucker- und fettreiche Nahrung oder uber die Schonheit eines Gemaldes hinaus. In Sex und Kunst und Schokolade erklart der Psychologieprofessor Paul Bloom, wie Vergnugen beim Menschen eigentlich funktioniert, und berichtet von den erstaunlichen Untersuchungen zu diesem Thema.

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.

From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society--and especially parents--to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even...

New York Post Best Book of 2016

We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it.

Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious...

The study of the relationship between natural language and spatial cognition has the potential to yield answers to vexing questions about the nature of the mind, language, and culture. The fifteen original contributions in Language and Space bring together the major lines of research and the most important theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, providing a much needed synthesis across these diverse domains.

Each chapter gives a clear up-to-date account of a particular research program. Overall, they address such...