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42564
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980
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1993 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Paul Bloom is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans topics primarily in Child Development and Digital Technology, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility. These areas frequently intersect with subfields such as Education, Physiology, and General Health Professions.

The scientist has contributed to academic literature through several recent papers, including:

  • Informing women about the risks of exposing babies to tobacco smoke: outreach and education efforts using Facebook "boost posts", 2022, published in Translational Behavioral Medicine
  • Role of slotting fees and trade promotions in shaping how tobacco is marketed in retail stores, 2021, published by UNC Libraries
  • Slotting allowances and the retail sale of alcohol beverages, 2021, published by UNC Libraries

Paul Bloom has collaborated with a number of researchers across these publications. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Carrie A. Miller
  • Sunny Jung Kim
  • Rochelle D. Schwartz-Bloom
  • Susan K. Murphy
  • Bernard F. Fuemmeler

Publication venues where they have contributed multiple works include UNC Libraries and Translational Behavioral Medicine.

In recognition of their professional contributions, Paul Bloom was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Natural language and natural selection

    Steven Pinker;Paul Bloom

  • How children learn the meanings of words

    Paul Bloom

  • Social Evaluation by Preverbal Infants

    J Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

    Paul Bloom

  • Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human

    Paul Bloom

  • Two reasons to abandon the false belief task as a test of theory of mind

    Paul Bloom;Tim P German

  • Intention, history, and artifact concepts.

    Paul Bloom

  • Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals

    Yoel Inbar;David A. Pizarro;Paul Bloom

  • Choosing the Right Green Marketing Strategy

    Jill Meredith Ginsberg;Paul N. Bloom

  • Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays.

    Yoel Inbar;David A. Pizarro;Joshua Knobe;Paul Bloom

  • Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil

    Paul Bloom

  • Attribution of Dispositional States by 12-Month-Olds

    Valerie Kuhlmeier;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • Three-month-olds show a negativity bias in their social evaluations.

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • How infants and toddlers react to antisocial others

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul J. Bloom;Neha Mahajan

  • The Curse of Knowledge in Reasoning About False Beliefs

    Susan A.J. Birch;Paul Bloom

  • Three- and four-year-olds spontaneously use others' past performance to guide their learning.

    Susan A.J. Birch;Sophie A. Vauthier;Paul Bloom

  • The intelligence of the moral intuitions: comment on Haidt (2001).

    David A. Pizarro;Paul Bloom

  • How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

    Paul Bloom

  • Why people prefer unequal societies

    Christina Starmans;Mark Sheskin;Paul Bloom

  • Evidence against a dedicated system for word learning in children

    Lori Markson;Paul Bloom

  • Scaling Social Entrepreneurial Impact

    Paul N. Bloom;Aaron K. Chatterji

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Wynn
Karen Wynn Yale University
David A. Pizarro
David A. Pizarro Cornell University
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gil Diesendruck
Gil Diesendruck Bar-Ilan University
Bruce M. Hood
Bruce M. Hood University of Bristol
Janet Metcalfe
Janet Metcalfe Columbia University
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Laurie R. Santos
Laurie R. Santos Yale University
J. Kiley Hamlin
J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia
Frank C. Keil
Frank C. Keil Yale University

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