In the first of a four-part series on empathy — which will be a recurring theme throughout the podcast — we take a look at what empathy is, how it appears in the brain, and what happens when it's missing.

Links:
Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-Cohen
Empathy: Why It Matters and How To Get It by Roman Krznaric
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
As the brain spins
Mirroring People by Marco Iacoboni
Phineas Gage
The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon
Simon Baron-Cohen's Empathy Quotient exam
JoshShear.com: Introduction to empathy

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