The Weird Reason It’s Hard to Empathise And Be Logical At The Same Time
By Jeremy Dean, PsyBlog, January 19, 2015
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When the brain activates the network of neurons involved in empathising, it suppresses the network used for cold, hard analysis.
The reverse is also true: activating the brain’s analytical networks reduces the ability to empathise.
These conclusions come from a study published in the journal Neuroimage, which is the first to find that we are constrained in our ability to be analytical and empathetic at the same time (Jack et al., 2012).
