And as a scientist that doesn’t seem to me to be much of an explanation. and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don’t think it’s anything more than another word for doing something bad. “I’m not satisfied with the term ‘evil’,” says the Cambridge University psychology and psychiatry professor, one of the world’s top experts in autism and developmental psychopathology. And he’s decided that evil is not good enough. REUTERS/HandoutĪs a scientist seeking to understand random acts of violence, from street brawls to psychopathic killings to genocide, he has puzzled for decades over what prompts such acts of human cruelty. Cambridge University psychology and psychiatry professor Simon Baron-Cohen in an undated photo.
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