Paul Bloom of the University of Toronto and Emeritus Professor at Yale is our guest. This is Paul's fourth appearance on econ talk. He was last year in October of 2021 talking about his book, The Sweet Spot. Our topic for today is his latest book, Psych PSYCH.
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.