The science of evil - on empathy and the origins of cruelty
Borderline personality disorder, psychopathy and narcissism. Autism and Asperger Syndrome. The people who exhibit these conditions have one thing in common: lack of empathy. In some cases, this can lead to dangerous scenarios, but in others it can simply mean a different way of interpreting the world. In The Science of Evil an award winning psychologist who has been investigating autism for decades, offers a new brain-based theory of human cruelty drilling down into the neuroscience and brain anatomy of humans.
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