Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to a Good Life. What if experiencing a good life involves more than just pleasure? Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives. It seems obvious that pleasure leads to happiness - and pain does the opposite. And yet we are irresistibly drawn to a host of experiences that truly hurt, from the exhilarating fear of horror movies or extreme sport to the gruelling challenges of exercise, work, creativity and having a family. Drawing on ground-breaking findings, ... |
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A Brief Tour of Everything We Know. Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you: a wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by one of its greatest experts. Nothing is more familiar and yet less understood than the human mind. It defines the experience of being human, and yet its workings contain some of the deepest mysteries ever encountered. Written by one of the world's greatest teachers of psychology, The Human Mind provides a masterful and riveting guide to all that we have learned since modern science began probing those mysteries. It will illuminate everything you think and ... |
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The Story of the Human Mind. A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all time How does the brain-a three-pound wrinkly mass-give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist Paul Bloom answers these questions and many more in Psych, his riveting new book about the science of the mind. Psych is an expert and passionate guide to the most intimate aspects of our nature, ... |
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Защо харесваме нещата, които харесваме ... Идеята на книгата е да обясни същността на удоволствието, като проследи корените и развитието му при отделните индивиди и еволюционния му произход в нашия биологичен вид. Психологът Пол Блум защитава две твърдения, които обикновено не вървят ръка за ръка - първо, че всекидневното удоволствие е дълбинно и трансцендентално, и второ, че то е израз на еволюцията ни като човешки същества. Като тези позиции на пръв поглед си противоречат. Ако удоволствието е задълбочено, то би трябвало да се основава на култура и ерудиция. Ако пък е продукт на еволюцията, би трябвало да е просто; би ... |
