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#BlackLivesMatter, #BlueLivesMatter, and radical empathy
Empathy is a multifaceted beast, and it can get us into trouble when social upheavals strike. There’s a bunch of measures of empathy, but many of them make a distinction between cognitive empathy (being able to think like someone else) and emotional or affective empathy (being able to feel like someone else). Within cognitive empathy, […]
Hannibal, Bates Motel, and trait absorption
In 2013, two remarkable TV shows hit the air- and cable-waves that provide backstories of two of cinema’s most notable villains. Hannibal features a retelling of the story of Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham that surprises even the most die-hard connoisseurs of Thomas Harris’s original novels and the movies that have been made from them. […]
