Is It Good to Tell People to Be More Sympathetically?

i profiled washington states criminal justice training centre. Although these officers were very empathic towards citizens, they were even more empathic toward fellow police officers. That level of apathy for people in their own group might have interfered with their ability to understand how the rest of the world saw what had happened. This is consistent with a research by my friend emile brunau. He's studied sort of parochial empathy in a lot of different inter group contexts. And he finds that sometimes if you want to predict when some one will be willing to be aggressive towards outsiders or unwilling to compromise with someone on the other side of a conflict, it's not enough to measure whether they empathize...