Mientras escucho por primera vez al compositor Marcel Landowski, francés muerto en 1999, me pregunto, minutos antes de decidir si es que voy a ver el partido de Messi: ¿Por qué no me enteré de esta teoría muchos años atrás?
Baron-Cohen argued in his book Zero Degrees of Empathy (Penguin, 2011) that autistic persons and psychopaths are mirror opposites (psychopaths show intact cognitive empathy but impaired affective empathy whilst people with autism show impaired cognitive empathy but intact affective empathy). He argues that this is why psychopaths can go on to commit acts of cruelty and why acts of cruelty are uncommon in autism. People with autism struggle to understand other people's motives, intentions and behaviour and tend to avoid relationships, finding them confusing, but rarely hurt others. In contrast, psychopaths tend to manipulate others by using their intact cognitive empathy and often hurt others.
Haberlo sabido antes.
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