How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like, (Paperback)

from heike6

It was an enjoyable read with lots of interesting anecdotes, but there wasn't much content that didn't seem obvious. "By distorting experience, beliefs, including essentialist beliefs, garner support for themselves, which is one reason why it is so hard to change our minds about anything."

from ohernaes

"[...] people naturally assume that things in the world - including other people - have invisible essences that make them what they are. Experimental psychologists have argued that this essentialist perspective underlies our understanding of the physical and social worlds, and developmental and c...

from Janientrelac

could have been good book, isn't. Very unclear statement of idea on how pleasure works. the best part is stories abot wierd pleasures.

from dknippling

This a book to stimulate curiosity, not to answer it. Bloom presents several theories on how pleasure works, most of which revolve around the idea that, as humans, we believe that everything has an invisible, immeasurable essence, and that when our perception of that essence matches up with somet...