Paul Bloom

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Paul Bloom (2008)

Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963 in Montreal ) is a Canadian -American professor of psychology at Yale University in New Haven .

Life

Bloom's research focuses on cognitive developmental psychology, especially in the field of language acquisition .

As a student, Bloom attended McGill University , where he received his BA in 1985 . He completed his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology .

Throughout the 1990s, Bloom taught at the University of Arizona : as an assistant professor from 1990 to 1996; as Associate Professor from 1996 to 1999. Since 1999 he has taught and researched at Yale University. In 1993 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ).

Bloom is editor of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences alongside Barbara L. Finlay .

Bloom has been attracting media attention since 2014 with the thesis that pure empathy is not a good help in making moral decisions because it does not ask about the hard facts. Bloom recommends instead compassion (Engl. Compassion ), a feeling that people also motivated to help others, if those are different from oneself, and can act in a calm, deliberate manner.

Awards

In 2002 and 2006 Paul Bloom received the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology .

For 2017 he was awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Awards .

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • as publisher: Language acquisition. Core readings . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1994, ISBN 0-262-52187-3 .
  • with MA Peterson, L. Nadel and MF Garrett (Eds.): Language and space . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1996, ISBN 0-262-52266-7 .
  • with Ray Jackendoff and K. Wynn: Language, logic, and concepts: Essays in honor of John Macnamara. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999, ISBN 0-262-10078-9 .
  • How children learn the meanings of words. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000, ISBN 0-262-02469-1 .
  • Descartes' baby. How the science of child development explains what makes us human. Basic Books, New York, 2004, ISBN 0-465-00783-X .
  • Just Babies - The Origins of Good and Evil . Crown Publishing, New York City, USA 2013, ISBN 978-0-307-88684-2 .
    • Every child knows good and bad . Translation by Katrin Krips-Schmidt. Pattloch Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-629-13057-0 .
  • Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion . Ecco, 2017

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Web links

  • Homepage of Paul Bloom at Yale University.
  • Introduction to Psychology . Yale University's Open Yale course (2007), given by Paul Bloom (accessed December 19, 2015).
  • Paul Bloom's profile page on TEDGlobal with two 16-minute lectures (“The Origin of Joy”, July 2011, and “Can Prejudices Be Useful?”, January 2014), accessed on December 19, 2015.
  • Against Empathy , in: Boston Review, September 10, 2014 (accessed December 19, 2015).
  • Empathy blinds us . Interview with Paul Bloom about the difference between “empathy” and “compassion”, in: ZON (DIE ZEIT Online) on December 19, 2015 (accessed on December 19, 2015).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Empathy blinds us”. Retrieved December 27, 2015 . Die Zeit , December 17, 2015
  2. ^ Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bloom, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada