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

  • Baron-Cohen, Simon.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
  • Books

About this work

Description

A path-breaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for the psychological understanding of evil.

Publication/Creation

New York : Basic Books, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-229) and index.

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    BF575.E55 2011B37s
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780465023530
  • 0465023533