Empathy is good until it isn't. If you're on the wrong side of the emotion, you could be in serious trouble. Scientists have recently found that there is darkness attached even to something as positive and constructive as empathy. 'Dark empaths,' as they are called, could be dangerous to those they befriend, according to a new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
To understand dark empaths,' you need to understand the nature of empathy, with psychologists now beginning to see it as a layered entity.
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