The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is There an Asymmetry in the Cognitive Empathy?
There's an asymmetry for perfectly you know understandable reasons. You can get offended if someone you consider of equal stature just replies to you in a super off-handed way after you wrote them something very careful right. And that's part of the sort of I think it does reflect a lack of caring and he thinks that that itself might come out from a power asymmetry. The piece you referred to where I talked about the Gellinsky work was partly about Elon Musk. Because one explanation for his tweets is low cognitive empathy among others.
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