The science of evil : on empathy and the origins of cruelty
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
152.41/BARON-COHEN,S
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
xii, 240 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780465023530 (alk. paper), 0465023533 (alk. paper), 0465023533 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Explaining "evil" and 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
A path-breaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for the psychological understanding of evil