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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 new vision of the pleasures of everyday life. Some teenage girls enjoy cutting themselves with razors. The average American spends more than four hours a day watching television. The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing to many men. Abstract art can sell for million...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393066326
ISBN-10: 0393066320
Publication Date: 6/14/2010
Pages: 304
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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.


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