Paul Bloom (psychologist)

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Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963) is a

Bloom was born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec.^[2] As an undergraduate he attended McGill University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology (with honors first class) in 1985. He attended graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a PhD in cognitive psychology in 1990, under the supervision of Susan Carey.

As a rationalist and a self-declared atheist, he rejects all notions of spirits, deities, and the afterlife.^[3]

Career

From 1990 to 1999, he taught psychology and cognitive science at the University of Arizona. Since 1999, he has been a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.

Since 2003, Bloom has served as co-editor in chief of the scholarly journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto in 2021.

Honors and awards

Bloom has held the Harris Visiting Professorship at the Harris Center for Developmental Studies at the

In 2002, the

In 2004, he received the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the

His article in The Atlantic, "Is God an Accident?"[2] was included in The Best American Science Writing 2006. Bloom concludes that "the universal themes of religion are not learned." Taking his cues from Darwin, Bloom posits that our spiritual tendencies emerged somewhere in the evolutionary process, most likely as "accidental by-products" of other traits.^[3]

He has had regular appearances on

• Bloom, P. (2023). Psych: The Story of the Human Mind. HarperCollins.
  ISBN 0063096358^[5]
• Bloom, P. (2021). The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning. HarperCollins.
  ISBN 0062910566^[6]
• Bloom, P. (2016).
  ISBN 0062339338^[7]
• Bloom, P. (2013). Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil. The Crown Publishing Group.
  ISBN 0307886840^[8]
• Bloom, P. (2010). How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
  ISBN 0393066320^[9][10]
• Bloom, P. (2004). Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human. New York: Basic Books.ASIN B008UYQFES^[11]
• Bloom, P. (2000). How Children Learn the Meanings of Words. Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Press.
  ISBN 0262024691
• ISBN 9780262600460
• Bloom, P.; Peterson, M.;
  ISBN 0262522667
• Bloom, P. (1994). Language Acquisition: Core Readings. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Selected popular articles

• (March 2014). "The War on Reason", Atlantic Magazine.
• (November 2013). "Politicians Really Are Big Babies".
• (January 2012). "Religion, Morality, Evolution". Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 63. Religion, Morality, Evolution.
• (May 2010). "The Moral Life of Babies". The New York Times Magazine.
• (March 2010). "How do morals change?". Nature.^[12]
• (September 2009). "The long and short of it". The New York Times.
• (August 2009). "What's Inside a Big Baby Head?" (Book Review: The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik). Slate.
• (June 2009). "No Smiting". (Book Review: The Evolution of God by Robert Wright). The New York Times.
• (November 2008). "Does religion make you nice?". Slate.
• (November 2008). "First-person Plural". Atlantic Monthly.
• (June 2006). "Seduced by the flickering lights of the brain". Seed Magazine.
• (December 2005). "Is God an accident?" The Atlantic Monthly.

References

1. ^ "Paul-bloom-cv-november-2016.pdf" (PDF).
2. ^ ^{a b} "Is God an Accident?". The Atlantic. December 2005. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
3. ^ ^{a b} "JENNIE ROTHENBERG GRITZ, Wired for Creationism?, The Atlantic, DECEMBER 2005 ISSUE". The Atlantic. 22 November 2005.
4. ^ "Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP)". www.socphilpsych.org. Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
5. ^ Greenawalt, Marc (2022-12-02). "Spring 2023 Announcements: Science". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
6. ISBN 978-0062910561
7. ISBN 978-0062339331
8. ISBN 978-0307886859
9. ISBN 978-0393340006
10. ^ Bloom, Paul (2010). "Why we like what we like". Observer. 23 (8). Association for Psychological Science.
11. ISBN 978-0465007868
12. PMID 20336117
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External links

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• Paul Bloom's personal homepage
• Links to Bloom's articles and books at Yale
• Introduction to Psychology, video course by Paul Bloom at Open Yale Courses
• Paul Bloom at TED
  • TED Talk: Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure (TEDGlobal 2011)