Paul Bloom Returns

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Paul Bloom (The Sweet Spot, Just Babies, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind) is a psychologist, professor, and author. Paul returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss how our most important force as humans is our capacity to reason, the reconstructive nature of memory, and how to decide which studies we should believe in. Paul and Dax talk about the natural asymmetry between elation and agony, repressed memories, and how much chance events shape us. Paul explains his thoughts on right brain vs left brain, the gendered differences of jealousy, and how to answer the question of nature or nurture. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard I'm joined by Lily Patman.
0:06.1	Hi. How are you? Good. Returning guest one of our favorite guests.
0:11.0	Huh. Yeah, really fun expert.
0:13.4	Oh my God, the one and only Paul Bloom.
0:15.8	Paul is a psychologist and a professor at Yale University.
0:20.1	Do you see how much struggling I'm doing?
0:24.0	Yeah, and also because you have to hold the phone so close to your eyes.
0:27.0	I thought the whole point was...
0:28.0	Okay, now, these glasses are hard, okay.
0:32.0	Oh, they're really... are hard. Okay. I feel like I could get in a bulldozer and immediately operate it.
0:38.2	There's like it could drive anything and fucking operating these glasses is I'm learning I'm learning okay poor Paul Bloom he's our favorite he is he is I mean I think he's the most
0:50.4	brilliant psychologist still alive he is is beyond for me. He is. We cover a lot of fun different
0:56.3	topics in this which I really like. Mm-hmm. That's what's so fun about him. He'll dance in any genre.
1:02.0	He'll go with you. He will. He's got a bunch of great books, The Sweet
1:05.7	Spot Against Empathy, Just Babies, How Pleasure Works. He's a new book out right now that I
1:12.4	loved called Psych, the story of the human mind.
1:17.0	In essence, this was his Psych 101 class.
1:20.3	That was the most popular class at Yale for years.
1:23.8	He would then do that in a spoken word version,
1:26.7	and now he's written a text, and it's really incredible.
1:29.6	We recommend.
1:30.9	I rec.
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