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SUMMARY:Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty - Simon Bar
 on-Cohen
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CONTACT:Lieke van Bree
DESCRIPTION:World-expert Simon Baron-Cohen presents new discoveries on the
  importance of empathy\, and the problems with evil.\nSimon 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 session he proposes a radical shift\, tur
 ning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor\, empathy. Unli
 ke the concept of evil\, he argues\, empathy has real explanatory power.\n
 \nSimon Baron-Cohen is Professor at Cambridge University in the fields of 
 psychology and psychiatry. He is also the Director of Cambridge's internat
 ionally-renowned Autism Research Centre. He has carried out research into 
 social neuroscience over a career spanning twenty years. The Essential Dif
 ference (Penguin 2003) has been translated in over a dozen languages and p
 ut forward the theory of 'the extreme male brain'. His most recent book is
  Zero Degrees of Empathy.\n\nPlease also see the event "flyer":http://www.
 educ.cam.ac.uk/events/SimonBaron-CohenFlyer.pdf and "Booking Form":http://
 www.educ.cam.ac.uk/events/BookingForm4Feb12.doc
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, Donald McIntyre Building\, 184 Hills Road
 \, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, GS5
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