Commentary: Empathy and its discontents

Daniel Västfjäll^{1

2}, Arvid Erlandsson^{1

3}, Paul Slovic^{2

4}, Gustav Tinghög¹

Affiliations

¹ Judgment, Emotion, Decision, Intuition Lab, Linköping UniversityLinköping, Sweden.
² Decision ResearchEugene, OR, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Lund UniversityLund, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of OregonEugene, OR, USA.

Comment

Daniel Västfjäll et al. Front Psychol. 2017.

. 2017 Apr 18:8:542.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00542. eCollection 2017.

Daniel Västfjäll^{1

2}, Arvid Erlandsson^{1

3}, Paul Slovic^{2

4}, Gustav Tinghög¹

¹ Judgment, Emotion, Decision, Intuition Lab, Linköping UniversityLinköping, Sweden.
² Decision ResearchEugene, OR, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Lund UniversityLund, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of OregonEugene, OR, USA.

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Keywords: compassion; decision making; empathy; psychic numbing; public policy.

Comment on

Empathy and Its Discontents.
Bloom P. Bloom P. Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Jan;21(1):24-31. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.11.004. Epub 2016 Dec 2. Trends Cogn Sci. 2017. PMID: 27916513 Review.

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