Some blame the empathy-deficient for much of the suffering in the world.
People with autism and Asperger's syndrome, Baron-Cohen argues, are also empathy-deficient, though he calls them "Zero-Positive".
Simon Barobserves observes that some people with autism and Asperger's syndrome, though typically empathy-deficient, are highly moral, owing to a strong desire to follow rules and insure that they are applied fairly.
Cashin and Newman, in reviewing the relationship between autism and criminality, also noted deficient empathy as a factor in ASD-related violence but, in contrast to Bjorkly's emphasis on its emotional aspects, saw such empathy deficiency as the result of core cognitive-processing deficits.
Administrators call non-reporting a problem, but non-reporting reflects survivors' wisdom in avoiding a second assault comprised of bad information, non-transparency and deficient empathy.
Conversely, the deficient empathy skills in psychopathic populations are believed to contribute to morally inappropriate behavior (Hare 2003; Blair 2007; Soderstrom 2003).
He believes that those who are deficient in empathy can be taught.
The poet Thom Gunn, a friend of the author's, remarked that he'd worried Sacks was deficient in empathy until he became a clinician.
Could we improve our approach to disruptive behaviors by seriously considering an emotional/trauma specific form of aggression that is distinct from disorders generated predominantly by deficient arousal, empathy and self-regulation?
And, to be sure, the Mayor is notoriously deficient in the empathy department.
Thus, we found that 3.1%% of teachers showed a very deficient level of empathy, 25.6 % a minimum level, 61.2 % a medium level and 10.1 % a maximum degree of empathy (Fig. 1).
