It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but… — Paul Bloom Being nice Copy Share Image
Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer,… — Paul Bloom Care Copy Share Image
I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media. — Paul Bloom Great times Copy Share Image
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband… — Paul Bloom Happy marriage Copy Share Image
Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our… — Paul Bloom Care Copy Share Image
I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not… — Paul Bloom Dog Copy Share Image
And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data. — Paul Bloom Data Copy Share Image
For the most part, people use "empathy" to mean everything good. For instance, many medical schools have courses in empathy. But if… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such… — Paul Bloom Advantage Copy Share Image
This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at… — Paul Bloom Empathy Copy Share Image
One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too… — Paul Bloom Action Copy Share Image
Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp… — Paul Bloom Evolution Copy Share Image
We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
My younger son told me nobody uses email anymore. I'm this old fogie with my email. I don't know what I'm supposed… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“And it isn’t a mistake in taste, like believing that the Matrix sequels were as good as the original.” — Paul Bloom Failure Copy Share Image
Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement. — Paul Bloom Achievement Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Animal Copy Share Image
By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and… — Paul Bloom Changing the world Copy Share Image
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go… — Paul Bloom America Copy Share Image
Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion… — Paul Bloom Compassion Copy Share Image
Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can… — Paul Bloom Accompanied Copy Share Image
In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I… — Paul Bloom Charity Copy Share Image
It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least… — Paul Bloom Care Copy Share Image
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats. — Paul Bloom Education Copy Share Image
We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder -… — Paul Bloom Being Copy Share Image
Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
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