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Sadistic cruelty and unempathic evil: Psychobiological and evolutionary considerations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2006
Abstract:
Understanding the origins of evil behaviour is one of our most important intellectual tasks. A distinction can perhaps be drawn between overt sadistic cruelty and the lack of empathy to suffering that is a hallmark of evil. There is increasing data available on the prevalence, proximal psychobiological underpinnings, and distal evolutionary basis for these contrasting phenomena.
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