The science of evil on empathy and the origins of cruelty
"Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. In The Science of Evil Simon Baron-Cohen,...
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Basic Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Explaining "evil" and human cruelty
- The empathy mechanism : the bell curve
- When zero degrees of empathy is negative
- When zero degrees of empathy is positive
- The empathy gene
- Reflections on human cruelty
- Appendixes: 1. The empathy quotient (EQ)
- Appendix: 2. How to spot zero degrees of empathy (negative).
