Subtitled, "Why We Like What We Like". Explores the science behind desire, attraction and tastes. 'This book is not just a pleasure, but a revelation,' Daniel Gilbert

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion von Bloom, Paul

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic...

?This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic...

What if experiencing a good life involves more than just pleasure?Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our...

A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all timeHow does the brain?a three-pound wrinkly mass?give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was...

Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you.Nothing is more familiar and yet less understood than the human mind. It defines the experience of being human, and yet its workings contain some of the deepest mysteries...

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...

"Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil" von Paul Bloom erforscht die tief verwurzelten Ursprünge von Gut und Böse in der menschlichen Natur. Bloom, ein renommierter Psychologieprofessor an der Yale University, argumentiert, dass...

Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you: a wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by one of its greatest experts. 'Like having the mind's complexities untangled by a witty, eloquent and deeply...

"How Children Learn the Meanings of Words" von Paul Bloom ist ein bedeutendes Werk in der Reihe "Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change". Das Buch untersucht die faszinierenden Prozesse und Mechanismen, durch die Kinder Wörter und...

The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends more than four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. People slow their cars to look at gory...