2024-08-07
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hello, everyone, and welcome back to conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm delighted to be speaking with Paul Bloom, who is a professor of psychology at University of Toronto.
Emeritus at Yale University, Paul is also one of North America's best known public intellectuals on children, the psychology of children, empathy, human emotions, various features of cognition.
He has numerous excellent books.
I've enjoyed all of them.
The most recent is called Psych, the story of the human mind.
But again, you can read all of them.
He has a new substack, which is excellent small potatoes.
He is a bit still on Twitter and is more generally a force of nature.
Paul, welcome, Tyler.
It's very nice to talk to you.
I have just some very general questions about psychologists, and I'd like to hear your take on it.
And they run along the lines of, like, how much do you people understand anyway?
So your partner, I believe, is a psychologist.
You're a psychologist.
If you're sitting in a restaurant and you're listening to a couple talk at the other table, do you two feel you understand them better than, like, two smart non psychologists?
No, not in the slightest.
Not in the slightest.