Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale University. He is the author of Descartes’ Baby and How Pleasure Works. He has contributed to The Atlantic, the New York Times, Science, and Nature. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

"Bloom covers food, sex, and art at length and touches on much more in this accessible compendium of experiments, quotes, philosophical nuggets, and anecdotes. Sigmund Freud, Mr. Pleasure Principle himself, would have approved."