The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
You may think you know yourself, but humans have a striking inability to predict their own behavior in differing emotional states. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the hot-cold empathy gap.
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| 1:51.2 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. |
| 1:55.2 | And I'm Joe McCormick. And today we're going to be taking a look at what I think is a very interesting and what is undoubtedly a very common failure of empathy. |
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