How Pleasure Works By Paul Bloom Pangobooks Xvi, 280 pages : 21 cm in this fascinating and witty account, yale psychologist paul bloom examines the science behind our curious desires, attractions, and tastes, covering everything from the animal instincts of sex and food to the uniquely human taste for art, music, and stories. Paul bloom is a professor of psychology at yale university. he is the author of "how children learn the meanings of words," "descartes’ baby" and "how pleasure works." he has contributed to the atlantic, the new york times, science, and nature. he lives in new haven, connecticut.
Book Review How Pleasure Works By Paul Bloom The Secret To Pleasure is anything but straightforward. our desires, attractions, and tastes take us beyond the symmetry of a beautiful face, the sugar and fat in food, or the prettiness of a painting. in how pleasure works, yale university psychologist paul bloom draws on groundbreaking research to unveil the deeper workings of why we desire what we desire. 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. Paul bloom. bodley head, 2010 psychology 280 pages. in how pleasure works, the internationally acclaimed psychologist paul bloom explores one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human behaviour. we are natural born essentialists when it comes to pleasure, nothing is ever merely skin deep. we are attracted, whether we know it. How pleasure works : the new science of why we like what we like by bloom, paul, 1963 publication date 2010 topics pleasure publisher new york : w. w. norton collection.
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