How Pleasure Works
内容简介
The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends more than four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents, and go to movies that make them cry. Pleasure is anything but straightforward. Our desires, attractions, and tastes take us beyond the symmetry of a beautiful face, the sugar and fat in food, or the prettiness of a painting. In How Pleasure Works, Yale University psychologist Paul Bloom draws on groundbreaking research to unveil the deeper workings of why we desire what we desire. Refuting the longstanding explanation of pleasure as a simple sensory response, Bloom shows us that pleasure is grounded in our beliefs about the deeper nature or essence of a given thing. This is why we want the real Rolex and not the knockoff, the real Picasso and not the fake, the twin we have fallen in love with and not her identical sister. In this fascinating and witty account, Bloom draws on child development, philosophy, neuroscience, and behavioral economics in order to address pleasures noble and seamy, highbrow and lowbrow. Along the way, he gives us unprecedented insights into a realm of human psychology that until now has only been partially understood.
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作者简介
Paul Bloom is a passionate teacher of undergraduates, and his popular Introduction to Psychology 110 class has been released to the world through the Open Yale Courses program. He has recently completed a second MOOC, “Moralities of Everyday Life”, that introduced moral psychology to tens of thousands of students. And he also presents his research to a popular audience though articles in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Many of the projects he works on are student-initiated, and all of them, he notes, are "strongly interdisciplinary, bringing in theory and research from areas such as cognitive, social, and developmental psychology, evolutionary theory, linguistics, theology and philosophy."
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目录
Preface
1. The Essence of Pleasure
2. Foodies
3. Bedtricks
4. Irreplaceable
5. Performance
6. Imagination
7. Safety and Pain
8. Why Pleasure Matters
Notes
References
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读书文摘
想象所带来的快感源自现实中的快感。 因此，观众在看电影或小说时养成了一个默契，他们将所有出现的细节都视为有目的性的安排，正是这种默契影响了观众的偏好。 受虐的快感之所以与一般的快感不同，就在其中的可控制性。
根据列维汀的观点，音乐是社会化的产物，一个人一旦固定了自己的音乐品味，就意味着他已经在社会中寻找到自身的定位，也已经决定自己要扮演什么样的社会角色了，他成了某个固定社会族群的一份子。
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