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Paul Bloom

Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Yale University

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Psychology

Paul Bloom is currently serving as a Psychology Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University.

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Yale University

Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology

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psychology cognitive science behavioral sciences child development cognition cognitive development cognitive psychology developmental psychology neuroscience child psychology psychological science moral psychology human cognition social psychology language development language acquisition early childhood development developmental science child language social cognition educational psychology experimental social psychology moral philosophy word learning behavioral decision making early childhood narrative language learning cultural psychology human decision process metacognition personality psychology cognitive linguistics young children applied developmental psychology homosexuality collective cognition moral issues human development moral practice behavioral research lexical semantics human condition human-animal interactions psychodynamic developmental changes social bias language comprehension unconscious bias social reasoning normative ethics revealed preferences mating psychology user perception self-awareness body image brain science adult development punishment penology language science language evolution disgust sensitivity collective nouns life events religious belief perceived moral standing other people prosocial obligations social-emotional development rational compassion false belief task gay marriage conservative attitudes artifact concepts third-party punishment

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Against Frictionless AI. Communications Psychology (2026)

computational intelligencecomputer sciencemachine intelligenceagainst frictionless aiartificial intelligencedistributed artificial intelligence

Saving People or Pets? Speciesism and Family Partiality Across Development. SSRN Electronic Journal (2026)

biological anthropologysociobiologyfamily partialitybehavioral ecologyhuman-animal interactionsbiological conservationevolutionary biologyecology and evolutionary biologyanimal conservationdomesticationconservation biologyanthropology

Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2025)

social psychologyanimal behaviorhuman-animal interactionspsychologypersonality

Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Third-Party Intervention Across Childhood. (2025)

Julia MarshallKellen Mermin-BunnellAnton GollwitzerJan RetelsdorfPaul Bloom

third-party interventionpsychologycross-cultural perspectivescross-cultural conceptionschild development

The Do-Gooder Dilemma: A Self/Other Asymmetry in the Perceived Emotional Costs of Self-Reporting Good Deeds. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2025)

Jerry RichardsonPaul BloomShaun NicholsDavid Pizarro

well-beingsocial psychologyapplied social psychologyethical theoryprosocial behaviordo-gooder dilemmaself-monitoringself/other asymmetrybehavioral sciencesexperimental social psychologypsychologyperceived emotional costsethics

The Do-Gooder Dilemma: A Self/Other Asymmetry in the Shame and Embarrassment of Self-Reporting Good Deeds. SSRN Electronic Journal (2025)

Jerry RichardsonPaul BloomShaun NicholsDavid A. Pizarro

social psychologyapplied social psychologyethical theoryprosocial behaviordo-gooder dilemmamoral psychologyself/other asymmetrysocial identitymoral philosophyempathymoral practicesocial sciencespsychologyethicsself-reporting good deedsmorality

Developmental Changes in the Perceived Moral Standing of Robots. Cognition (2024)

Madeline G ReineckeMatti WilksPaul Bloom

cognitiondevelopmental changescognitive scienceperceived moral standingcognitive developmentroboticsdevelopmental roboticsmoral psychologyhuman robot interactionbehavioral sciencespsychologysocial roboticsdevelopmental psychology

Span Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity Nbsp; /Span. SSRN Electronic Journal (2024)

Lucius CaviolaMatti WilksClaudia Suárez YeraCarter AllenGuy KahaneLuke McGuireNadira S. FaberAntonio J. Rojas TejadaMaria Sánchez CastellóJorge L. Ordóñez CarrascoPaul Bloom

human behavioranimal behavioranimal welfarebehavioral sciencesanimal cognitionchild development

Much of Developmental Psychology is Not Worth Doing. Theory and Society (2024)

cognitive developmentdevelopmental sciencetheory buildingpsychologyhuman developmentdevelopmental psychology

People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases. Psychological Science (2024)

Xiuyuan ZhangPaul BloomJulian Jara-Ettinger

applied psychologydifferential psychologycognitive sciencepsychological scienceuser perceptionbehavioral sciencesexperimental psychologyexperimental social psychologypsychologycognitive psychology

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Paul Bloom

Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Yale University

Affiliations

Psychology

Paul Bloom is currently serving as a Psychology Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University.

Honors

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Paul Bloom

Yale University

Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology

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Video Presentations

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Against Frictionless AI. Communications Psychology (2026)

computational intelligencecomputer sciencemachine intelligenceagainst frictionless aiartificial intelligencedistributed artificial intelligence

Saving People or Pets? Speciesism and Family Partiality Across Development. SSRN Electronic Journal (2026)

Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2025)

social psychologyanimal behaviorhuman-animal interactionspsychologypersonality

Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Third-Party Intervention Across Childhood. (2025)

Julia MarshallKellen Mermin-BunnellAnton GollwitzerJan RetelsdorfPaul Bloom

third-party interventionpsychologycross-cultural perspectivescross-cultural conceptionschild development

The Do-Gooder Dilemma: A Self/Other Asymmetry in the Perceived Emotional Costs of Self-Reporting Good Deeds. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2025)

Jerry RichardsonPaul BloomShaun NicholsDavid Pizarro

The Do-Gooder Dilemma: A Self/Other Asymmetry in the Shame and Embarrassment of Self-Reporting Good Deeds. SSRN Electronic Journal (2025)

Jerry RichardsonPaul BloomShaun NicholsDavid A. Pizarro

Developmental Changes in the Perceived Moral Standing of Robots. Cognition (2024)

Madeline G ReineckeMatti WilksPaul Bloom

Span Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity Nbsp; /Span. SSRN Electronic Journal (2024)

Lucius CaviolaMatti WilksClaudia Suárez YeraCarter AllenGuy KahaneLuke McGuireNadira S. FaberAntonio J. Rojas TejadaMaria Sánchez CastellóJorge L. Ordóñez CarrascoPaul Bloom

human behavioranimal behavioranimal welfarebehavioral sciencesanimal cognitionchild development

Much of Developmental Psychology is Not Worth Doing. Theory and Society (2024)

cognitive developmentdevelopmental sciencetheory buildingpsychologyhuman developmentdevelopmental psychology

People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases. Psychological Science (2024)

Xiuyuan ZhangPaul BloomJulian Jara-Ettinger

applied psychologydifferential psychologycognitive sciencepsychological scienceuser perceptionbehavioral sciencesexperimental psychologyexperimental social psychologypsychologycognitive psychology

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