Bloom, P. (to appear in 2010). How Pleasure Works: The new science of why we like what we like. New York: Norton.
Bloom, P. (2004). Descartes' baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human. New York: Basic Books.
Bloom, P. (2000). How children learn the meanings of words. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.
Jackendoff, R., Bloom, P. & Wynn, K. (1999). Language, logic, and concepts: Essays in honor of John Macnamara. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bloom, P., Peterson, M., Nadel, L., & Garrett, M. (1996) Language and space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bloom, P. (1994). Language acquisition: Core readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
McCrink, K., Bloom, P. & Santos, L. Children's and adult's judgments of equitable resource distributions. Developmental Science.
Egan, L., Bloom, P., Santos, L.R. Choice-based cognitive dissonance without any real choice: Evidence from young children and capuchin monkeys. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Hood, B.; Donnelly, K.; Leonards, U.; & Bloom, P. Arousal reveals implicit sympathetic magical thinking in adults. Journal of Culture and Cognition.
Hamlin, J., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. Third-party reward and punishment in young toddlers.
Weisberg, D.S., Sobel, D.M., Goodstein, J. & Bloom, P. Preschoolers are reality-prone when constructing stories.
Jarudi, I.,, Castaneda, M., Bloom, P. Performance enhancement and the status quo bias.
Hood, B.M. & Bloom, P. Do children think that duplicating the body also duplicates the mind?
Noles, N.S., Keil, F.C., and Bloom, P. Children's and adults' intuitions about who is entitled to own things.
Kuhlmeier, V.; Wynn, K.; & Bloom, P. Attribution of dispositional states by 9-month-olds: The role of faces.
Choe, K.; Keil, F.; & Bloom, P. Developing intuitions about which personal properties are associated with the brain.
Bloom, P. (September 2009). The long and short of it. New York Times.
Bloom, P. (August 2009). What's Inside a Big Baby Head. (Book Review: The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik). Slate.
Bloom, P. (June 2009). No Smiting. (Book Review: The Evolution of God by Robert Wright). The New York Times.
Bloom, P. (May 2009). Faith-based science. Natural History.
Bloom, P. (April 2009). Do Not Take Your Eyes Off This Review. (Book Review: Rapt by Winifred Gallagher). The Washington Post.
Bloom, P. (April 2009). Natural Happiness. New York Times Magazine.
Bloom, P. (Nov. 2008). Does religion make you nice? Slate.
Bloom, P. (Nov. 2008). First-person Plural Atlantic Monthly.
Bloom, P. (Feb. 2008). Morality studies. The New York Times Book Review.
Bloom, P. (May. 2007). Beauty is in the ear of the well informed. The Times Higher Education Supplement.
Bloom, P. & Pizarro, D. A. (2006). Homer's soul. In A. Brown & C. Logan (Eds.), The Psychology of The Simpsons. Benbella Books.
Bloom, P. (Jun. 2006). Seduced by the flickering lights of the brain. Seed Magazine.
Bloom, P. (Dec. 2005). Is God an accident? Atlantic Monthly.
Bloom, P. (Oct. 2005). Worse than creationism. American Psychological Society Observer.
Bloom, P. (Sept. 2004). The duel between body and soul. The New York Times, Op. Ed. section.
Bloom, P. (Jul. 2004). To urgh is human. The Guardian, Op. Ed. section.
Weisberg, D. S. and Bloom, P. (2009). Young children separate multiple pretend worlds. Developmental Science, 12(5), 699-705.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D., Knobe, J. & Bloom, P. (2009). Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Intuitive Disapproval of Gays. Emotion, 9(3), 435-439.
Danovitch, J. & Bloom, P. (2009). Children's extension of disgust to physical and moral events. Emotion, 9(1), 107-112.
Jarudi, I., Kreps, T. & Bloom, P. (2008). Is a refrigerator good or evil? The moral evaluation of everyday objects. Social Justice Research, 21, 457-469.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D., & Bloom, P. (2008). Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals. Cognition and Emotion.
Uhlmann, E.; Pizarro, D.; & Bloom, P. (2008). Varieties of social cognition. Journal of the Theory of Social Behavior, 38, 293-322.
Bloom, P. & Gelman, S.A. (2008). Psychological essentialism in selecting the 14th Dalai Lama. Trends in Cognitive Science, 12, 243.
Markson, L., Diesendruck, G., & Bloom, P. (2008). The shape of thought. Developmental Science, 11, 204-208.
Birch, S. A. J., Vauthier, S. A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Three- and four-year-olds spontaneously use others' past performance to guide their learning. Cognition, 107, 1018-1034,
Preissler, M. A. & Bloom, P. (2008). Two-year-olds use artist intention to understand drawings. Cognition, 106, 512-518.
Hood, B. M. & Bloom, P. (2008). Children prefer certain individuals over perfect duplicates. Cognition, 106, 455-462.
Nurmsoo, E. and Bloom, P. (2008). Preschoolers' perspective taking in word learning: Do they blindly follow eye gaze? Psychological Science, 19, 211-215.
Hamlin, J. K.; Wynn, K.; & Bloom, P. (2007). Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature, 450, 557-559
Egan, L.; Santos, L. R.; & Bloom, P. (2007). The origins of cognitive dissonance: Evidence from monkeys and children. Psychological Science, 18, 978-983.
Bloom, P. (2007). More than words: A reply to Malt and Sloman. Cognition, 105, 649-655.
Gelman, S. A. & Bloom, P. (2007). Developmental changes in the understanding of generics. Cognition, 105, 166-183.
Birch, S. & Bloom, P. (2007). The curse of knowledge in reasoning about false beliefs. Psychological Science, 18(5), 382–386.
Bloom, P. & Weisberg, D. S. (18 May 2007). Childhood origins of adult resistance to science. Science, 316(5827), 996-997.
Preissler, M. A. & Bloom, P. (2007). Two-year-olds appreciate the dual nature of pictures. Psychological Science, 18, 1-2.
Bloom, P. (2007). Religion is natural. Developmental Science, 10, 147-151.
Bloom, P. & Jarudi, I. (26 October 2006). The Chomsky of morality? [Review of the book Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong]. Nature, 443, 909-910.
Bloom, P. (6 July 2006). Changing our minds [Review of the book Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change]. Nature, 442, 27-28.
Bloom, P. (2006). My brain made me do it. Journal of Culture and Cognition, 6, 209-214.
Skolnick, D. & Bloom, P. (2006). What does Batman think about SpongeBob? Children’s understanding of the fantasy/fantasy distinction. Cognition, 101, B9-B18.
Bloom, P. (2005). Word learning, intentions, and discourse. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14, 311-314.
Bloom, P. (14 Jul 2005). Dissecting the right brain [Review of the book The Ethical Brain]. Nature, 436, 178-179.
Choe, K.; Keil, F.; & Bloom, P. (2005). Children's understanding of the Ulysses conflict. Developmental Science, 8, 387-392.
Bloom, P. (2004). Can a dog learn a word? Science, 304, 1605-1606.
Bloom P. (2004). Children think before they speak. Nature, 430, 410-411.
Birch, S. & Bloom, P. (2004). Understanding children's and adult's limitations in mental state reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 255-260.
Kuhlmeier, V.; Bloom, P.; & Wynn, K. (2005). Do 5-month-old infants see humans as material objects? Cognition, 94, 95-103.
Gutheil, G.; Bloom, P.; Valderrama, N.; & Freedman, R. (2004). The role of historical intuitions in children's and adults' naming of artifacts. Cognition, 91, 23-42.
Birch, S. A. J. & Bloom, P. (2003). Children are cursed: An asymmetric bias in mental state attribution. Psychological Science,14, 283-286
Diesendruck, G.; Markson, L.; & Bloom, P. (2003). Children's reliance on the creator's intent in extending names for artifacts. Psychological Science, 14, 164-168.
Diesendruck, G. & Bloom, P. (2003). How specific is the shape bias? Child Development, 74, 168-178.
Kuhlmeier, V.; Wynn, K.; & Bloom, P. (2003). Attribution of dispositional states by 12-month-olds. Psychological Science, 14, 402-408.
Pizarro, D. & Bloom, P. (2003). The intelligence of the moral emotions: A comment on Haidt (2001). Psychological Review, 110, 293-296.
Pizarro, D.; Uhlmann, E.; & Bloom, P. (2003). Causal deviance and the attribution of moral responsibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 653-660.
Bloom, P. (2002). Mindreading, communication, and the learning of the names for things. Mind and Language, 17, 37-54.
Wynn, K.; Bloom, P.; & Chiang, W-C. (2002). Enumeration of collections by 5-month-old infants. Cognition, 83, B55-B62.
Birch, S. & Bloom, P. (2002). Preschoolers are sensitive to the speaker's knowledge when learning proper names. Child Development, 73, 434-444.
Bloom, P. & Markson, L. (2001). Are there principles that apply only to the acquisition of words? A reply to Waxman and Booth. Cognition, 78, 89-90.
Bloom, P. & Keil, F. (2001). Thinking through language. Mind and Language.16, 351-367
Bloom, P. (2001). Precis of "How children learn the meanings of words". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1095-1103.
Bloom, P. (2001). Word learning. Current Biology, 11, R5 - R6.
Bloom, P. (2000). Language and thought: Does grammar makes us smart? Current Biology, 10, R516-R517.
Bloom, P. & German, T. (2000). Two reasons to abandon the false belief task as a test of theory of mind. Cognition, 77, B25-B31.
Gelman, S. A. & Bloom, P. (2000).Young children are sensitive to how an object was created when deciding what to name it. Cognition, 76(2), 91-103.
Giralt, N. & Bloom, P. (2000). How special are objects? Children's reasoning about objects, parts, and holes. Psychological Science, 11, 497-501.
Bloom, P. & Veres, C. (1999). The perceived intentionality of groups. Cognition, 71, B1-B9.
Bloom, P. (1999). Language capacities: Is grammar special? Current Biology, 9, R127-R128.
Bloom, P. & Markson, L. (1998). Capacities underlying word learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(2), 67-73.
Bloom, P. & Markson, L. (1998). Intention and analogy in children's naming of pictorial representations. Psychological Science, 9, 200-204.
Markson, L. & Bloom, P. (1997). Evidence against a dedicated system for word learning in children. Nature, 385, 813-815.
Bloom, P. & Wynn, K. (1997). Linguistic cues in the acquisition of number words. Journal of Child Language, 24, 511-533.
Bloom, P. (1997). Intentionality and word learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1(1), 9-12.
Bloom, P. (1996). Intention, history, and artifact concepts. Cognition, 60, 1-29.