Against Empathy

Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognised expert on the psychology of language, social reasoning, morality and art. His previous books include Just Babies and How Pleasure Works, and he has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, New Yorker and the Guardian. Bloom has won several awards for his research, articles and teaching, and his ‘Introduction to Psychology’ class was one of seven selected by Yale to be made available worldwide. His TED talks have been viewed 2.8 million times.

出版者:Bodley Head

作者:Paul Bloom

页数:304

出版时间:2016-12

价格:GBP 14.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781847923158

图书标签:认知与心理psychologyPaul_Bloomsoldempathy

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In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem; a source of prejudice, not kindness.

We think of empathy – the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves – as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But while it inspires care and protection in personal relationships, it has the opposite effect in the wider world. As the latest research in psychology and neuroscience shows, we feel empathy most for those we find attractive and who seem similar to us and not at all for those who are different, distant or anonymous. Empathy therefore biases us in favour of individuals we know while numbing us to the plight of thousands. Guiding us expertly through the experiments, case studies and arguments on all sides, Paul Bloom ultimately shows that some of our worst decisions – in charity, child-raising, criminal justice, climate change and war – are motivated by this wolf in sheep's clothing.

Brilliantly argued, urgent and humane, Against Empathy overturns widely held assumptions to reveal one of the most profound yet overlooked sources of human conflict. It demonstrates with absolute clarity that, when faced with moral decisions, we must choose reason and compassion, not empathy, as our guides.

读后感

The main point of this book as I understand it: strong emotions create strong cognitive bias, which hinders sensible decision making. To me this is a reasonable point to make. However, the title of the book is more extreme than the actual content of the boo...  

这本书一直论证着一个主题:共情是不好的，我们应该摆脱它。 看了全文，不外乎全是反驳共情的好处，只在末尾写了一段话，说它确实有好的地方。但是，我被这段话说服了，挺厉害精准。 我们一直渴望以他人的视角去看世界，我们养孩子就像自己又活了一次。作为一个凡人，也许不能够...  

如果你期望通过看这本书来发现作者有何摆脱共情的道理，那还是不要看了。 实际上，作者并没有反对共情，或者鼓励大家摆脱共情，作者翻来覆去说得都是要认知共情，不要情绪共情而已... 其中有一段讲述不要过度共情的例子很适用当下中国家庭的教育，比如孩子的父母，相较于爷爷奶...  

在日常生活中，我确实会有一些关于共情上面的困惑。即朋友在向我讲述自身的遭遇时，我不是很清楚自己到底要站在什么立场上来发表自己的言论。但是有一点很明确就是很少共情，我大多数是站在局外人的角度讲述利弊，当然这也会带来偶尔的无奈。相比较之下当我自己站在事件讲述者...  

一晚上把《摆脱共情》读完了（实际上只花了不到四个小时..） 有点莫名其妙说实话。还是找不到摆脱共情的方法，只是知道了为什么要摆脱。说是用理性代替共情然而.. 总的来说很惊喜里面有我在《无处安放的同情》里读到关于老卢和亚当斯密的言论，只不过这里把“富有人性的英国人...  

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