"When we come to the fork in the road and we make a decision that say violates the unity of plot and character, that's unbearable," he says. "We find a way to convince ourselves that the author, me, it's in the ballpark." He adds: "This isn't somebody why moral disagreement or political disagreement is so, is so difficult"
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.