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...empathy there, and that’s what I enjoy, is playing with that empathy. I think perhaps authors themselves must be morally questionable people in order to write about morally questionable characters. We do contain multitudes. All the facets of every character I’ve ever created exist in some form inside my head. Therefore, I am all the goodies and all the baddies in my...

...Empathy - The statements that you have just completed form a measure of ‘empathy’. People often struggle to define empathy, or to understand how it differs from related concepts such as sympathy. The word itself derives from two roots. One is the ancient Greek word empatheia which means passion or physical affection (Jamieson, 2014). The second root is the German...

...a sense of predictability and stability, or not knowing or understanding what they are expected to do when given a task, amongst others. It is important that the underlying reasons behind those distressed behaviours are explored and understood, and that autistic people are treated with empathy, respect and kindness during, before and after those challenging episodes....

...empathy. In fact, the ability to differentiate oneself from others is often considered a prerequisite for understanding that someone else may be happy or sad, even if the viewer is not. “When I became interested in this aspect of ethology I went through the scientific literature and I discovered that, however, the ability to recognize their own image in the mirror is a...