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How Pleasure Works

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"Engaging, evocative...[Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling." —NPR

Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing's history, origin, and deeper nature.


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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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  • ISBN: 9780393077117
  • File size: 419 KB
  • Release date: July 30, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780393077117
  • File size: 376 KB
  • Release date: July 30, 2015

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"Engaging, evocative...[Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling." —NPR

Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing's history, origin, and deeper nature.


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