Paul Bloom (psychologist)
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| Born |
December 24, 1963 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Residence | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Citizenship | U.S., Canadian |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions |
Yale University University of Arizona |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University |
| Thesis | Semantic structure and language development (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Susan Carey |
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Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963) is a Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art.
Bloom was born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec. As an undergraduate he attended McGill University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology (with honors first class) in 1985. He attended graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Ph.D in cognitive psychology in 1990, under the supervision of Susan Carey.
From 1990 to 1999, he taught psychology and cognitive science at the University of Arizona. Since 1999, he has been a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.
Since 2003, Bloom has served as co-editor in chief of the scholarly journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Bloom is married to the psychologist Karen Wynn, an infant researcher who is also a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. They have two sons.
Bloom has held the Harris Visiting Professorship at the Harris Center for Developmental Studies at the University of Chicago (2002); the Nijmegen Lectureship at the Max Planck Institute at the University of Nijmegen (2006); the Templeton Lectureship at Johns Hopkins University (2007-8); and the Visiting Distinguished SAGE Fellowship at the UCSB SAGE Center for the Study of Mind (2010).
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