Paul Bloom
Né(e): December 24, 1963 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paul Bloom is a psychologist and author whose work examines human nature, morality, pleasure, empathy, and child development. He is known for How Pleasure Works, Just Babies, Against Empathy, and The Sweet Spot. His books and public writing have helped shape debates about moral judgment, happiness, and the limits of empathy.
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Paul Bloom is a Canadian-American psychologist and writer whose work has moved between laboratory research, university teaching, and public argument. Born in Montréal, he studied psychology at McGill University and completed graduate work in brain and cognitive sciences at MIT. After a decade on the faculty at the University of Arizona and nearly twenty years at Yale, he joined the University of Toronto in 2021 while retaining emeritus status at Yale. Across those years, he built a reputation for studying how children and adults make sense of the world, especially in relation to morality, pleasure, religion, fiction, and art. One important turning point came, by his own account, when a collaboration with David Pizarro on moral judgment redirected much of his academic career toward moral psychology; his research on infants’ moral understanding later helped earn him the 2017 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. ((https://archives.destinationcanada.com/en/teddestinationcanada/paul-bloom))
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Against Empathy
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A provocative argument that empathy can lead to poor decisions, proposing rational compassion as a more effective moral guide.
Sweet Spot
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Exploring how suffering enhances pleasure and meaning in life.
Psych
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A captivating exploration of psychology, unraveling the mysteries of human consciousness, intelligence, and behavior through engaging anecdotes and scientific insights.
Against Empathy
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A provocative argument that empathy can lead to poor decisions, proposing rational compassion as a more effective moral guide.
Sweet Spot
Paul Bloom
Exploring how suffering enhances pleasure and meaning in life.
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A captivating exploration of psychology, unraveling the mysteries of human consciousness, intelligence, and behavior through engaging anecdotes and scientific insights.
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"One comes to Paul Bloom for his unfailingly brilliant psychological research; one stays for the wise and relaxed way he writes about it"
— Jim Holt
"Paul Bloom is a scientist who knows how to tell a fascinating and charming story"
— Joshua Foer
"Paul Bloom is the perfect guide to a topic we all need to understand better: how our minds work"
— Laurie Santos
"Paul Bloom explains how this work illuminates human nature, and does it with his trademark clarity, depth, discernment, and graceful style"
— Steven Pinker
"Paul Bloom is one of the best psychologist-writers today"
— Sally Satel
"Paul Bloom can always be counted on to take your confident assumptions about humanity and turn them upside down"
— Susan Cain
"Paul Bloom has such an interesting mind, and it's a rare treat to follow as he tracks the origins of human morality"
— Emily Bazelon
"Paul Bloom is that rarest of experts—able to tell a story, make it practical, and yet faithfully capture the complexity and nuance of the latest research"
— Angela Duckworth
"Paul Bloom will change the way you think"
— Good Morning America.com
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