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18 December 2007
Why aren't we all Good Samaritans? Daniel Goleman on TED.com
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. Through psychological experiments and a story of the Santa Cruz Strangler, he shows how we are all born with the capacity for empathy -- but we sometimes choose to ignore it. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 13:13.)
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