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The science of evil : on empathy and the origins of cruelty / Simon Baron-Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baron-Cohen, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Empathy.
- Cruelty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A pathbreaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for our psychological understanding of evil.
- Contents:
- Explaining "evil" and cruelty
- The empathy mechanism: the bell curve
- When zero degrees is negative
- When zero degrees is positive
- The empathy gene
- Reflections on human cruelty.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4526-0400-2
- 1-283-09420-7
- 9786613094209
- 0-465-02380-0
- OCLC:
- 732958219
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