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Could this not call into question the empathy scale used in the study?

• adnzzzzZ 7y ago
  Likely not. I would assume they use one of the big five traits which is called agreeableness, or something that's close enough it, and this result seems in keeping with how that trait would be described. People who are high in agreeableness are more likely to see the world in prey vs. predator terms - in my speculative opinion because this trait evolved as a maternal trait primarily to deal with the protection of infants - which takes its form in the political sphere as a very nasty type of behavior where if someone is found out to be the enemy everything's fair game to destroy them, since they're predators and you need to protect the prey on your team.
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