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"Mini" Decoding of Matthew Goodwin & Interview with Paul Bloom

Decoding the Gurus

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The Dangers of Cognitive Empathy

Cognitive empathy is a very good thing, whether or not you're looking to work with somebody or work against them. I think where we see the danger is, is that it can open the door to a kind of relativism, which is, I see the world this way, you see the world that way. After 9-11, people would say, well, let's try to figure out why Bin Laden did what he did. But when we do things well, we override this impulse to demonize the empathizers.

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