The surprising psychology behind your urge to break the rules | Paul Bloom

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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We all experience it: that desire to do something wrong just for the sake of it. Whether it's walking on manicured grass or sticking your finger in a friend's ice cream, psychologist Paul Bloom invites us to see the clever, creative and beautiful side of these minor impulses to do bad. He dives into the psychology behind this all-too-human condition -- and proposes that it helps make our world a little more unpredictable and fun.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
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0:14.4	Psychologist Paul Bloom started something provocative.
0:17.4	He called it the Povercity Project, and the responses he got to it were disruptive, funny,
0:23.2	and ultimately human.
0:25.3	In his 2023 talk, Ted at Destination Canada, he shares the key lessons
0:29.9	from years of study, why acts of wrongdoing can be so tempting after a short break.
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