Zero degrees of empathy : a new theory of human cruelty and kindness

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The Dark Side of Empathy: Mimesis, Deception, and the Magic of Alterity (2015, background): “…the recent and burgeoning literature on empathy, whether within the fields of philosophy (Kögler and Stueber 2000; 2006; Zahavi 2001), neuroscience (Baron-Cohen 2012; Decety and Ickes 2009; Gallese 2003; Stueber 2012), primatology (Preston and de Waal 2002; de Waal 2009b), psychology (Eisenberg…”
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “Over time as children mature they become able to distinguish self from other, and recognise ‘other’ is different from self, and that the distress that they are feeling may not be their distress but on behalf of the other [4].”