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Paul Bloom

Paul Bloom Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Paul Bloom

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Educated At: McGill University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Nationality: Canada, United States Of America, Québec

Occupations: University Teacher, Psychologist

Total quotes: 2

“Everything is the way that it is because it got that way.”

— Paul Bloom

Tagged: Life

“Just how successful are we at seeing the world as others see it? Apparently, we are nowhere near as good as we think we are. In his book ‘Mindwise,’ the psychologist Nicholas Epley discusses experiments in which people were asked to judge the thoughts of strangers. These included asking speed daters to identify others who wanted to date them, asking job candidates how impressed their interviewers were with them and asking a range of people whether or not someone was lying to them.

People are often highly confident in their ability to see things as others do, but their attempts are typically barely better than chance. Other studies find that people who are instructed to take the perspectives of others tend to do worse, not better, at judging their thoughts and emotions.”

— Paul Bloom, Imagining the Lives of Others

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