Can you teach people to have empathy? -

[craigwend]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33287727
... A good warm up is to do a quick assessment of your empathic abilities. Neuropsychologist Simon Baron-Cohen has devised a test called Reading the Mind in the Eyes in which you are shown 36 pairs of eyes and have to choose one of four words that best describes what each person is feeling or thinking - for instance, jealous, arrogant, panicked or hateful.

The average score of around 26 suggests that the majority of people are surprisingly good - though far from perfect - at visually reading others' emotions. ...

quiz - test thing ... https://www.questionwritertracker.com/quiz/61/Z4MK3TKB.html

I got 31 / 36 - I can feel your pain

 

[welsh dragon]

I bet you can't

 

[welsh dragon]

[QUOTE 3772688, member: 259"]It's only meant for posh people![/QUOTE]


Ah. I see. That explains everything then

 

[Levo-Lon]

I usually just run as the baseball bat says more than eyes ever can...

my wife says empathy is something she loves about me...im always happy to help a stranger..just dont take the piss...

i didnt see link as my samsung said its a bad un

 

[HarryTheDog]

I got 28 out of 36, un-suprisingly it was mainly the womens eyes I got wrong. Missus was suprised I got any right.

 

[SD1]

"Can you teach people to have empathy? -"
Fu*k off dick face.
That's a definite no!

 

[theclaud]

Utter cobblers, as one might expect from Baron-Cohen. I did as much of the test as I could be arsed, which simply confirmed the obvious - that it tests not the inherent meaning of the eyes or the empathy of the reader, but one's competence at decoding signs. I'm rather good at it.

 

[slowmotion]

If you send me a PM, I can tell you where to send your moolah to an Asberger's charity.

23.

BTW, giving you a score after every question is a seriously dodgy tactic. I would say that, wouldn't I?

 

[AndyRM]

I like the olde schoole use of Flash.

 

[ColinJ]

It does seem a bit obvious - 34.

 

[cyberknight]

 

[buggi]

No. You can teach people to read other peoples emotions but you can't teach them empathy. They can still be obnoxious dick even if they know what the other person is thinking. That's not an empathy test.

 

[Hacienda71]

You can probably make people have empathy, but it may be through the ingestion of MDMA which is illegal.

 

[ColinJ]

I think that he failed the empathy test ...!

 

[Crackle]

I got 28 but I put that down to the fact I couldn't give a farking shoot.

Are you looking at me?!