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Paul Bloom was born on 24 December, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Canadian/American psychologist. Discover Paul Bloom's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?
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Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
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Paul Bloom Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Paul Bloom worth at the age of 60 years old? Paul Bloom’s income source is mostly from being a successful Professor. He is from Canada. We have estimated Paul Bloom's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963) is a Canadian American psychologist.
He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art.
Bloom was born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec.
As an undergraduate he attended McGill University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology (with honors first class) in 1985.
He attended graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a PhD in cognitive psychology in 1990, under the supervision of Susan Carey.
As a rationalist and a self-declared atheist, he rejects all notions of spirits, deities, and the afterlife.
From 1990 to 1999, he taught psychology and cognitive science at the University of Arizona.
Since 1999, he has been a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.
Bloom has held the Harris Visiting Professorship at the Harris Center for Developmental Studies at the University of Chicago (2002); the Nijmegen Lectureship at the Max Planck Institute at the University of Nijmegen (2006); the Templeton Lectureship at Johns Hopkins University (2007-8); and the Visiting Distinguished SAGE Fellowship at the UCSB SAGE Center for the Study of Mind (2010).
In 2002, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology awarded Bloom the Stanton Prize for outstanding early-career contributions to interdisciplinary research in philosophy and psychology, and in 2005–06, he served as the society's president.
Since 2003, Bloom has served as co-editor in chief of the scholarly journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto in 2021.
In 2004, he received the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences at Yale.
In 2006, he was made a fellow of the American Psychological Society in recognition of his "sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology".
was included in The Best American Science Writing 2006.
Bloom concludes that "the universal themes of religion are not learned."
Taking his cues from Darwin, Bloom posits that our spiritual tendencies emerged somewhere in the evolutionary process, most likely as "accidental by-products" of other traits.
He has had regular appearances on National Public Radio and Bloggingheads.tv.
In 2007, his Introduction to Psychology class was selected as an outstanding Yale course to be made available worldwide through the Open Yale Courses initiative.
In 2017, he received the $1 million 2017 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for his investigations into how children develop a sense of morality.
Bloom is the author of seven books and editor or co-editor of three others.
His research has appeared in Nature and Science, and his popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The American Scientist, Slate and The Atlantic.
His article in The Atlantic, "Is God an Accident?"