Paul Bloom

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Paul Bloom is a psychologist and professor at Yale University. Paul joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he loves to debunk simple ideas that people commonly have, how a full life requires both logic and emotion, and how people's empathy rarely extends past our own family or friends. Paul and Dax talk about why people seek out suffering in order to find pleasure, the fascination people have with villain types, and why hedonism can often lead to boredom. Paul explains how toxic positivity has actually prevented people from finding true happiness, the differences in the sexual fantasies between men and women, and whether or not having kids makes people happy. 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, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm
0:04.8	Dax Shepard. I'm joined by Madeline Petalin.
0:08.1	Hello. Madeline Petlin. That's my new name.
0:11.2	Yeah, it's a new name, a new moniker. A new name. Yeah, it's a new name a new moniker
0:13.3	A new Monica I'm trying to think with form I was filling out
0:16.8	Maybe this is one of these school forms like what are your nicknames for your kids and it's like where would I begin for everyone I know I have got like 35 nicknames. Yeah. I love a nickname. I was thinking
0:28.6	about that on one of my walks. Like if I had a kid what would I name it and then I would definitely want it to have the ability for nickname.
0:37.0	Right, right.
0:39.0	Yeah, you know what's really funny is I think as you know I wanted for 30 years to have a child named Lincoln I thought it was going to be a boy and then so I would float that by Brie all the time and she got I don't want to Lincoln because everyone would call him Link.
0:53.6	Yeah, we do that.
0:54.6	And what's funny is I was like, they're not going to call him Lincoln.
0:56.4	Yeah, that's gross.
0:57.4	And then I call Link, Link, Link, or Linkie, all the time.
1:01.0	And I like it.
1:01.8	It's so funny, but before I had a person to place it with
1:04.9	it felt like a bad nickname.
1:09.6	Okay, okay, since we started this shindig, this public barbecue, that is the podcast, Paul Bloom was always kind of...
1:17.0	Top of mind.
1:18.0	Top of mind. In the Danny Kahneman list, people we had heard many times on other podcasts and just prayed we could speak with at some point, and we've done it!
1:27.0	Paul Bloom is an award-winning psychologist who studies how children and adults make sense of the world. He has many fantastic books against
1:34.8	empathy the case for rational compassion just babies the origin of good and
1:38.9	evil how pleasure works de cart's baby how children learn the meaning of words.
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