![]() ![]() So can you identify what someone else is thinking and feeling? But the second part is the response element. The first part is recognition of somebody else's state of mind. Baron-Cohen.įLATOW: Can you give us a definition of what empathy is or what empathy is not?īARON: Well, you just gave a very good definition. and director of the university's Autism Research Center there. That's the ability to recognize and respond to someone else's feeling.Ĭould lowered empathy cause cruelty? Simon Baron-Cohen is author of "The Science of Evil." He's a professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. ![]() How are some people capable of causing extreme harm to others? Are they hardwired to do it, or can their behavior be tracked back to a troubled upbringing? My next guest has written a book that asks what makes someone evil, and he says that empathy, empathy might have something to do with it. ![]()
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