{"id":2186,"date":"2014-06-07T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2014-06-07T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:58:41","slug":"paul-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Paul Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[O]ne of the strongest examples of essentialism concerns the difference between the sexes. Before ever learning about physiology, genetics, evolutionary theory, or any other science, children think that there is something internal and invisible that distinguishes boys from girls. This essentialism can be explicit, as when one girl explained why a boy will go fishing rather than put on makeup: \u201c\u2019Cause that\u2019s they boy instinct.\u201d And seven-year-olds tend to endorse statements such as \u201cBoys have different things in their innards than girls\u201d and \u201cBecause God made them that way\u201d (a biological essence and a spiritual essence). Only later in development do children accept cultural explanations, such as \u201cBecause it is the way we have been brought up.\u201d You need to be socialized to think about socialization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul Bloom, <em>How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like<\/em>, New York, 2010, p. 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[O]ne of the strongest examples of essentialism concerns the difference between the sexes. Before ever learning about physiology, genetics, evolutionary theory, or any other science, children think that there is something internal and invisible that distinguishes boys from girls. This essentialism can be explicit, as when one girl explained why a boy will go fishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1429],"tags":[887,1431,1432,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}