The Upside of a Long Marriage

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A marriage is a transformative experience. It shifts your priorities, it's just how you see the world. Human beings are really complicated even yourself. And to make matters worse or better, we're moving targets. Just when you think you know her, she changes. And you change too, and your relationship, your relationship changes.

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.