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#647 James Fallon: Psychopathy, Personality Disorders, Brain Scans, and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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Cognitive Sympathy and Emotional Empathy

An important thing for psychopathy and narcissus personaly disorder is the type of ampathy you have, right? There are, we can talk about four kinds of empathy, and two of those have to do with the ability. But that has to do with what's called cognitive sympathy. It's so i know what you're thinking. And a normal person will take that and either ignore it or say, ok, you're hurting and i'm not going to help you. That's a normal response to having cognitive empathy. Emotional ympathy is different. You see, that's the difference. They don't use it to helpYou. So even though psychopaths have it,

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