All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect objects to obey principles of physics, and they're startled when things disappear or defy gravity. Yet they can also read emotions and respond with anger, sympathy, and joy.In Descartes' Baby, Bloom draws on a wealth of scientific discoveries to show how these two ways of knowing give rise to such uniquely human traits as humor, disgust, religion, art, and morality. How our dualist perspective, developed throughout our lives, profoundly...
All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expec...
Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems on a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way. In Scaling Social Impact, the editors address this issue with a comprehensive collection of original papers.
Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems on a local or limited basis and scale them up ...
Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing's history, origin, and deeper nature.
Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investi...
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.
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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 P...
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...
A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud...
