How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like - Rilegato

Bloom, Paul

 
9781847921437: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
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ISBN 10: 1847921434 ISBN 13: 9781847921437
Casa editrice: The Bodley Head Ltd, 2010

Sinossi

In How Pleasure Works, the internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Bloom explores one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human behaviour.

We are natural-born essentialists - when it comes to pleasure, nothing is ever merely skin-deep. We are attracted, whether we know it or not, to the hidden aspects of things and people. Some teenagers enjoy cutting themselves with razors; some men pay good money to be spanked by prostitutes. The average Briton spends over a day a week watching television. The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing to many men. Artwork can sell for millions of pounds. Food and alcohol are so compelling that they can come to dominate one's life. Young children enjoy playing with imaginary friends and can be comforted by security blankets. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents and go to sentimental movies that make them cry.

In this revealing and witty account, Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions and tastes, covering everything from the animal instincts of sex and food to the uniquely human taste for art, music and stories. Drawing on insights from child development, philosophy, neuroscience and behavioural economics, How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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Editore
The Bodley Head Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1847921434
ISBN 13 
9781847921437
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
304
Contatto del produttore
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9780393340006: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

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ISBN 10:  0393340007 ISBN 13:  9780393340006
Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2011
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