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For empathy's sake, I said, "It sounds like a really rotten bug."
Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D.: Treating Patients With Antibiotics M.D. Lisa Rosenbaum 2011
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For empathy's sake, I said, "It sounds like a really rotten bug."
Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D.: Treating Patients With Antibiotics M.D. Lisa Rosenbaum 2011
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At the same time, deregulation and reduced taxes on the wealthy from Reagan onwards produced massive growth in economic inequality, which is probably also a critical part of empathy's decline.
Maia Szalavitz: Shocker: Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000 2010
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This does not mean that people will always engage in helping behavior when they feel empathy, since people typically have various and conflicting desires, and not all conflicts are resolved in favor of empathy's urgings.
Hanging 2009
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There are two routes here -- finding a movie as miserable as you are for empathy's sake, or tormenting yourself with visions of the happy coupledom that's just out of your reach.
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Yet for the purpose of evaluating the impact and contribution of empathy to an agent's motivation (and for evaluating empathy's centrality for moral psychology), it is important to distinguish between various aspects of emotional responding to another person.
Empathy Stueber, Karsten 2008
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Knowing empathy's power can assure activists that showing their own vulnerability is likely to increase their safety, by disarming those who oppose them, opening them to their humanity and appealing to their self-respect.
openDemocracy Diana Francis 2010
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Knowing empathy's power can assure activists that showing their own vulnerability is likely to increase their safety, by disarming those who oppose them, opening them to their humanity and appealing to their self-respect.
openDemocracy Diana Francis 2010
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Daniel Pink in his NY Times Bestseller "A Whole New Mind" provides clarity into what empathy's core value is fundamentally about: "… empathy is a stunning act of imaginative derring-do, the ultimate virtual reality-climbing into another's mind to experience the world from that person's perspective".
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Ignatieff once wrote, "One of empathy's pleasures is to forget one's moral inconsistencies."
Torontoist Matt Kim 2009
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