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to moral concern and action. If we do an experiment
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and we induce you to feel empathetic to somebody,
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we get you to feel what they're feeling, you're more likely to be nice to them.
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And people differ in the extent to which they feel empathy.
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People differ to the extent it will hurt them
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to watch me slam my thumb with a hammer.
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If you are high empathy, you're more likely to be a nice person
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than if you're low empathy,
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suggesting there is some connection between empathetic feeling and liking.
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Now, empathetic feeling, like any other human capacity, differs across people.
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Some of us have a lot of it. Some of us don't have much of it.
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There is some reason to believe that in the population known as "Psychopaths",