Neuroscientist Tania Singer is the world´s foremost empathy researcher. Now she´s been accused of bullying colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, despite her expertise in the science of kindness,. Singer´s brain-imaging work has shown that empathy emerges from a vast cognitive network connecting vision, language, perception, analysis, and interpretation. But mapping brains and controlling one´s own mind are not the same thing. In the lab, Singer was allegedly harsh, intimidating, and controlling, as well as discriminatory against pregnant women, according to an Aug. 8 report by Kai Kupferschmidt in Science. Singer denies some of the more serious claims levied against...
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