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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

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The Importance of Empathy in Psychopath Training

Hannibal Lecter seems more skilled at knowing exactly what other people are feeling than any study. I don't think that anybody who is a killer and enjoyed the suffering of others could really get there. The movie came to my mind as an example of this, but I'm not sure it qualifies as empathy,. But hey, John Malkovich doesn't even being a hypocrite if you would be a f****** sociopath.

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