How Pleasure Works

The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

AvPaul Bloom

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-20
Mått:142 x 211 x 23 mm
Vikt:310 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393340006

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Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale University. He is the author of Descartes’ Baby and How Pleasure Works. He has contributed to The Atlantic, the New York Times, Science, and Nature. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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"Bloom covers food, sex, and art at length and touches on much more in this accessible compendium of experiments, quotes, philosophical nuggets, and anecdotes. Sigmund Freud, Mr. Pleasure Principle himself, would have approved."