Free shipping on orders over $99
How Pleasure Works

How Pleasure Works

The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

by Paul Bloom
Paperback
Publication Date: 06/09/2011

Share This Book:

 
$43.75
Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? 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.
ISBN:
9780393340006
9780393340006
Category:
Popular science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-09-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
302
Dimensions (mm):
211x142x23mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Paul Bloom

Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognised expert on the psychology of language, social reasoning, morality and art.

His previous books include Just Babies and How Pleasure Works, and he has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, New Yorker and the Guardian.

Bloom has won several awards for his research, articles and teaching, and his ‘Introduction to Psychology’ class was one of seven selected by Yale to be made available worldwide. His TED talks have been viewed 2.8 million times.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

Be the first to review How Pleasure Works.