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The science of evil : on empathy and the origins of cruelty / Simon Baron-Cohen.

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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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