Why is Empathy So Hard?

Psychologists explain why people don’t want to care, while those most vulnerable to Covid plea that we would

Robert Roy Britt
5 min readJan 18, 2022

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Photo: Unsplash/Külli Kittus

One thing we all seem to agree on: We’re tired of pandemic prevention measures. Yet we remain bitterly divided over our willingness to nonetheless make individual efforts to help protect our fellow humans, particularly the most vulnerable…

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Robert Roy Britt

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB