Nicholas Kristof, writing in a late January column in The New York Times titled ‘How Do We Increase Empathy?’, which somehow escaped our notice at the time — has sent us on a break from Stinson Beach’s sanitation policy dilemmas to thinking, instead, about money, psychology, and the transformative power of art critical of social behaviour. His column said:
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[W]ealth may impede empathy. … [H]eart rates of wealthier research subjects are less affected when they watch a video of children with cancer. …