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Early life and education
Bloom was born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec.[2] 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 Ph.D 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. [3] |