>>303427>Don't psychopaths have cognitive empathy? Cognitive… empathy? Sounds like a name for an empathy substitute (in the same sense as "soy milk" is "milk")
>They understand what's going on - they just don't care. What they're missing is affective empathy.Smart mathy person (and a 6'3" absolute unit of a bloke), yeah, but when it comes to *feelings*, he's a massive "I don't care" meathead. He's blind to the *vibe* of relief or such. So every time I sigh in relief he reall has to ask me "WHY are you SIGHING?!?!"
He has the life experience to process regular, normal" emotions, but he is completely blind to serious dramatic moments of a small fella's life. Therefore, every time I have a strong emotion - and don't have the COMPOSURE to mask it… one more SNAFU moment happens.
>What they're missing is affective empathy.Every time he said something important and I was all like "phew! Thanks!" he would only start asking WHY I just made this funny noise of gasp/sigh in relief.