Empathy

(Pink, // A Whole New Mind // ) Puppies for Sale by Dan Clark
 * EMPATHY ** is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else’s position and to intuit what that person is feeling.

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The Conceptual Age needs individuals who can quickly switch back and forth between deattachment and attunement (ie. an androgynous mind). (Pink, //A Whole New Mind//)

- builds awareness - bonds parent to child - allows us to work together - provides the scaffolding for our morality (Pink, //A Whole New Mind//)
 * Why is empathy important? **

[|All About Me? College Kids Lack Empathy] by Jeanna Bryner
[|What's Empathy Got To Do With It?] by Bruna Martinuzzi ** Simon Baron-Cohen’s Empathizing–Systemizing Theory ** Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge

“The female brain is predominately hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominately hard-wired for understanding and building systems. Systematizing involves exactness, excellent attention to local detail. To systemize, you need detachment. To empathize you need some degree of attachment in order to recognize that you are interacting with a person. Empathy involves an inexactness, attention to the larger picture, context, with no exception of lawfulness.” (Baron-Cohen, The Essential Difference)

Activities:

 * FIND YOURS - EQ vs SQ
 * [|Empathy Quotient] vs. [|Systematizing Quotient]
 * Fear in a Hat
 * **[|Spot The Fake Smile] **
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