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“My brother is severely autistic, so when I was a kid I spent a lot of time as a teenager in camps and programs for autistic kids. When I went to McGill as an undergraduate, I figured I'd be a therapist working with these kids. The truth is, and I knew this even back then, I'm just not good at this. I'm too empathic to do this sort of thing.”

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Paul Bloom is a renowned cognitive psychologist, born on December 24, 1963. He is a professor at Yale University, where he studies human thinking, decision-making, and judgment. Bloom's research spans multiple areas, including intuition, intuitive thinking, cognitive biases, and moral judgment. more

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