I watched a Ted talk years ago hosted by an autistic man.
He said that psychopaths have tons of cognitive empathy and very little to no affective empathy.
Autistic individuals have tons of affective empathy but have difficulty with cognitive empathy.
Cognitive empathy is what you think you should say or do for others.
Affective empathy is based on what you sense in others.
Most of the population have a mix of both, but I sense that our modern culture and major religions reinforce cognitive empathy. It makes sense, you want people to get along in society, so you learn how to think for others. That's why many went along with "saving grandma" and they are angry at those that questioned the plan.
Turns out that there's a group of people that have both forms of empathy....
The highly sensitive person. Not only they understand the rules, they also have intuition, which is based on affective empathy...
I watched a Ted talk years ago hosted by an autistic man.
He said that psychopaths have tons of cognitive empathy and very little to no affective empathy.
Autistic individuals have tons of affective empathy but have difficulty with cognitive empathy.
Cognitive empathy is what you think you should say or do for others.
Affective empathy is based on what you sense in others.
Most of the population have a mix of both, but I sense that our modern culture and major religions reinforce cognitive empathy. It makes sense, you want people to get along in society, so you learn how to think for others. That's why many went along with "saving grandma" and they are angry at those that questioned the plan.
Turns out that there's a group of people that have both forms of empathy....
The highly sensitive person. Not only they understand the rules, they also have intuition, which is based on affective empathy...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/02/are-you-anxious-introverted-or-just-a-highly-sensitive-person