Paul Bloom: I think Freud rewards reading, but not as a way of learning about psychology. My favorite book for Freud is Civilization and It's Discontense; unless you're really interested in intellectual history,. Stephen Pinker has written many popular books on the mind," he says.
Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, consciousness, and unhelpful instincts. They also discuss just how far psychology is from a true understanding of the human mind, and why, according to Bloom, that might not be such a bad thing.