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Paul Bloom

출생: 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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Empathy distorts our moral judgments in pretty much the same way that prejudice does
-Is empathy overrated?
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The more understanding you get, the richer your experiences will be
-Why pleasure is important
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Empathy is deaf to facts and figures; it’s engaged by the “identifiable victim effect.”
-The Baby in the Well
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My book and my article were about the benefits of certain sorts of chosen suffering, like BDSM or training for a marathon
-What doesn't kill you
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Given how discouragement is usually taken, the right sort of discouragement is the ultimate act of love
-Discouragement

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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"

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