Audio Essay: Elon’s (cognitive) empathy issue

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Audio Essay: Elon’s (cognitive) empathy issue

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Audio Essay: Elon’s (cognitive) empathy issue

Does having power impede perspective taking?

Nov 18, 2022

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Elon’s (cognitive) empathy issue

Pop quiz! First question: What do Elon Musk and the stewards of US foreign policy have in common? If you answered “a lack of cognitive empathy,” you don’t get any credit—not because that isn’t a correct answer (I think it is, more or less) but because it’s such an obvious answer. After all, cognitive empathy (aka “perspective taking”) is a…

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