two part empathy

[undergroundpanther]

The second part of this two-part empathy for the normal person is the automatic, compelling, intuitive, appropriate response to what the other feels - not the acting out of a chosen script. The psychopath can follow the same script as a normal person, usually with all the subtle nuances of a skilled actor - if he chooses to do so. An untrained observer is very unlikely to note any difference from the real thing.

Thus the second part of this two-part empathy in a psychopath is the choosing and acting of a script. Unlike the normal person, he can choose what script to follow. He is not compelled intuitively or automatically to react to the way he knows you feel. And unlike the normal person, he has been told, or learned by observing others, what he is supposed to feel.

As he rapes you or strangles you he is not compelled to feel your pain, your terror, your helplessness. There is no automatic, compelling, intuitive connection between what he knows you feel and what he feels. There is no way he must feel. Thus there is none of this kind of restraining force on his behavior. Therein lies the danger of psychopathy.

http://www.naturalchild.org/elliott_barker/partial_psychopath.html

Fake empathy
http://lourdesapril.multiply.com/journal/item/238
Manufactured Emotions

What to you distinguishes genuine emotion in art from fake emotion, i.e., genuine human empathy from manipulated sentimentality? How do we get back to the genuine in film – free from guideposts? Isn’t all film a manipulation? Isn’t any emotion real?
http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/carncult/emotions.shtml
http://www.thisisby.us/index.php/content/7_rules_for_the_creation_and_maintenance_of_fake_people

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/12/31/ccom131.xml
Fake consensus
ttp://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/false_consensus.htm