Paul Bloom
Psychologist and cognitive scientist
Paul Bloom is a Canadian-American psychologist who studies how people understand morality, religion, language, fiction and art.
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Born 1963 in Montreal, Canada
About Paul Bloom
Bloom was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is an emeritus professor at Yale University, where he held a chair in psychology and cognitive science, and he is also a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He has published more than a hundred scientific articles, in journals including Science and Nature. He has also written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly and Slate. He has written Just Babies, How Pleasure Works and Descartes' Baby. Our catalog includes Against Empathy, Psych and The Sweet Spot.