Originally Posted by
Wyrd
Yes. It's interesting in the fact that for whatever reason people with high IQs tend to have larger gaps between affective and cognitive empathy and it goes both ways (on another thread, "smarter people tend to have other problems such as Asperger's or lacking a conscience") and measuring cognitive empathy seems like it could yield some insights (I think it's because of the inherent problem that the rules of social decorum don't make any sense on any level, so if you're smart, you have to either deliberately decide not to develop an understanding of them at an early age in order to be able to follow them, and your "EQ" wastes away like your toe muscles waste away if you don't wiggle them, which is the "Asperger's" part, or if you do understand them, you realize they don't make any sense on any level and can't follow them, which is the "lacking a conscience" part, but there's not the middle ground that exists for other people).