Cet article est issu du numéro 135 de Philosophie magazine « Peut-on se mettre à la place des autres ? », en kiosque le 28 novembre 2019. Découvrez le sommaire et commandez ce numéro. Le psychologue ...

An intriguing scientific investigation into why suffering, from mountaineering to BDSM, so often leads to satisfaction There are more than 200 dead bodies on Mount Everest. Some of these frozen ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Shock Value. We all experience it: the desire to do something mischievous just for the sake of it. Psychologist Paul Bloom invites us to see the clever, creative ...

Some weeks ago, I sat down in my local coffee shop to begin reading Paul Bloom’s Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion. A man sitting at a nearby table pointed to my book with a look of ...

El psicólogo Paul Bloom, de 62 años, lleva años cuestionando una idea muy extendida en la cultura contemporánea, la de que la felicidad depende exclusivamente de maximizar el placer y evitar el dolor.

The science of why we like what we like.

Earlier this year professor of psychology Paul Bloom came to the defense of artificial intelligence chatbots as human companions. He wrote in The New Yorker that AI companions can “make for better ...