In the first of a four-part series on empathy — which will be a recurring theme throughout the podcast — we take a look at what empathy is, how it appears in the brain, and what happens when it's missing.

Links: • Against Empathy by Paul Bloom • The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-Cohen • Empathy: Why It Matters and How To Get It by Roman Krznaric • The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison • As the brain spins • Mirroring People by Marco Iacoboni • Phineas Gage • The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon • Simon Baron-Cohen's Empathy Quotient exam • JoshShear.com: Introduction to empathy

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