Zero Degrees of Empathy

Author(s) : Simon Baron-Cohen

Zero Degrees of Empathy

Book Details

  • Publisher : Penguin Books
  • Published : 2012
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 196
  • Category :
    Popular Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 33240
  • ISBN 13 : 9780141017969
  • ISBN 10 : 9780141017
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We have always struggled to explain why some people behave in the most evil way imaginable, while others are completely self sacrificing. Is it possible that - rather than thinking in terms of 'good' and 'evil' - all of us instead lie somewhere on the empathy spectrum, and our position on that spectrum can be affected by both genes and our environments?

Why do some people treat others as objects? Why is empathy our most precious resource? And does a lack of it always mean a negative outcome? From the Nazi concentration camps of World War Two to the playgrounds of today, Simon Baron-Cohen examines empathy, cruelty and understanding in this fascinating and challenging new look at what exactly makes our behaviour uniquely human.

About the Author(s)

Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, UK, and one of the co-discoverers of the 'theory of mind' deficit in autism. His books include Mindblindness (1995), The Essential Difference (2003) and Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts (2009).

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