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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
How Pleasure Works The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Author: Paul Bloom
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking and thought-provoking new understanding of pleasure, desire, and value. 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 thei...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393340006
ISBN-10: 0393340007
Publication Date: 6/20/2011
Pages: 304
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 6
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Paul Bloom is a Yale University professor of psychology who studies child development. In this book he explores how fantasy and mental and emotional perception affect human sensory experience. He explores how ideas of authenticity and the ability to pretend and engage with worlds we know to be pretend affect pleasure. I wasn't persuaded by every argument but there's a lot to learn and enjoy here.