Monday, April 09, 2012

Lunch Talk: (@TED) The Origins of Pleasure


Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.




tags: psychology, lunchtalk

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