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Paul Bloom is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science at Yale University and author of Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil.
Most people own things they don’t really need. It is worth thinking about why.
Most people see the benefits of empathy as too obvious to require justification.
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