Do You Think That You Need to Act Agrass?

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Andke: We're always trying to make sense of this in a way that we don't have a wole lot of information yet. What you're permitted to do by your culture really does influence what you will do, he says. Andan ne: Why ar they obviously going to be biological, a evolutionary influences on why theye, more men in prison, or more men who murder. But in the end, this stuff is all titrated and mitigated by something.

In this episode, we sit down with psychologist Julia Shaw, an expert in memory and criminal psychology, to discuss her new book - Evil. In the book, she makes a case for something she calls "evil empathy," seeing people who do heinous things as fellow human beings instead of as monsters. According to Shaw, othering criminals by categorizing them as a separate kind of human allows us to put them out of our minds and disappear them to institutions or prisons. The result is we become less-able to prevent the sort of behavior the harms others from happening again and again. In fact, she says "there's no such thing as evil," and sees the term as an antiquated, magical label that dehumanizes others, preventing us from accumulating the sort of scientific evidence that could lead to a better society.

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