Books On Science: From Hitler to Mother Teresa: 6 Degrees of Empathy

Monday, June 13, 2011 - 17:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Simon Baron-Cohen proposes that evil can be is more scientifically defined as an absence of empathy, made worse by negative parental and societal factors, with a genetic component.

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