
An award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil "a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil." ―New York Times How can we explain both cruelty and kindness? To award-winning psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen,...

An award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil "a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil" (New York Times). How can we explain both cruelty and kindness? To award-winning psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the...

In Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new look at what exactly makes our behaviour uniquely human.



Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. In The...
