Paul Bloom on the Situation of Pleasure

From TedTalks:

Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists — that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.

Related Situationist posts:

• Susan Boyle and the Situation of Sound,
• “Busker or Virtuoso? Depends on the Situation,” 
• The Painful Situation of Guilt
• The Science of Songs Stuck in Your Head
• “The Situation of Music,” 
• “Hillary Clinton, the Halo Effect, and Women’s Catch-22,” 
• “The Situation of Pain,” 
• “Attributing Blame — from the Baseball Diamond to the War on Terror,”
• “The Magnetism of Beautiful People,” and
• “Survival of the Cutest.”

Paul Bloom on Disgust

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Related Situationist posts:

• “Yuck!” “EWW!” and Other Conservative Expressions
• “Unclean Hands”
• “The Situation of Political Disposition”
• “The Situation of Reason,”
• “Ideology is Back!,”
• “The Situation of Confabulation,”
• “Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Processes,”
• “Jonathan Haidt on the Situation of Moral Reasoning,”
• “The Unconscious Situation of our Consciousness – Part IV,”and
• “Unconscious Situation of Choice.”

Morality and Religion

For a worthwhile discussion on the bloggingheads, check out this exchange between psychologist Paul Bloom and experimental philsopher Joshua Knobe.