Paul Bloom: I'm writing a book on perversity, on perverse choices. Why we choose to do things that we know are wrong? He says he's extremely interested in why we do this. "I think it reveals all sorts of things of a human nature"
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.