Could A Lack Of Empathy Explain Cruelty?
Could A Lack Of Empathy Explain Cruelty? BARON: So you - that's the main claim I'm making in my book, but it turns out that a low level of empathy doesn't necessarily lead to cruelty. I've been a town judge here for 16 years, and - but I do believe that there's a spectrum of people who lack empathy that can't be fixed. BARON: Yeah, and that's really part of the advance of MRI, is that you can take a group of people with, say, a personality disorder - many of the personality disorders involve low empathy - you can put them into the scanner, and you can look for differences in the empathy circuit. BARON: Well, yeah, we were just talking about psychopaths, and they are part of what's called antisocial personality disorder, also called sociopaths, and they do lack empathy.
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