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02368aam a22003137a 4500 001 66065BA46A8C11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 110601s2011 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2011431671 020 $a 9780713997910 020 $a 0713997915 035 $a (OCoLC)689522200 040 $a YDXCP $c YDXCP $d DLC $d NLE $d BWK $d UAT $d VP@ $d AU@ $d GUL $d CDX $d UKMGB $d GZQ $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a BJ1535 C7 B376 2011 100 1 $a Baron-Cohen, Simon. 245 10 $a Zero degrees of empathy : $b a new theory of human cruelty / $c Simon Baron-Cohen. 260 $a London ; $b Allen Lane, $c 2011. 300 $a xi, 190 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-178) and index. 505 0 $a Explaining "evil" and human cruelty -- The empathy mechanism: the bell curve -- When zero degrees of empathy is negative -- When zero degrees of empathy is positive -- The empathy gene -- Reflections on human cruelty. 520 $a Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. Unlike the concept of evil, he argues, empathy has real explanatory power. Putting empathy under the microscope he explores four new ideas: firstly, that we all lie somewhere on an empathy spectrum, from high to low, from six degrees to zero degrees. Secondly, that deep within the brain lies the 'empathy circuit'. How this circuit functions determines where we lie on the empathy spectrum. Thirdly, that empathy is not only something we learn but that there are also genes associated with empathy. And fourthly, while a lack of empathy leads to mostly negative results, is it always negative? Full of original research, Zero Degrees of Empathy presents a new way of understanding what it is that leads individuals down negative paths, and challenges all of us to consider replacing the idea of evil with the idea of empathy-erosion. 650 0 $a Cruelty. 650 0 $a Empathy. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825083156.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=66065BA46A8C11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search