Autism and the Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Simon Baron-Cohen)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Importance of Cognitive Empathy in Autistic People
Roxanne Jones: Can I bring this back to autism for a second? Because we started off this conversation with you distinguishing between cognitive empathy and emotional or affective empathy. We're not saying autistic people are like psychopaths, but it's just an important part of the conversation so that listeners don't go away with this idea that somehow autistic people are cruel or unkind," she says. "I think Bill Clinton is very good at reading rooms"
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