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

by Paul Bloom

Book Overview

The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends more than four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents, and go to movies that make them cry.

Pleasure is anything but straightforward. Our desires, attractions, and tastes take us beyond the symmetry of a beautiful face, the sugar and fat in food, or the prettiness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066320
• ISBN13: 9780393066326
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"