<![CDATA[Meltem Yucel - Blog]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:49:45 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Against [Emotional] Empathy]]>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:39:57 GMThttps://www.meltemyucel.com/blog/against-emotional-empathy
Last week I read Dr. Paul Bloom's (@paulbloomatyale) Against Empathy.

I was planning to write a long summary, but then I decided to keep things short. Here is my summary in 280 characters or less:
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Emotional empathy (different from perspective taking) is making the world a worse place. We need to remind ourselves that empathy is, in fact, a tool used motivate people. Though, I agree with Jesse Prinz that anger is a much better motivator.
]]><![CDATA[The Evolution of Cooperation]]>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:28:51 GMThttps://www.meltemyucel.com/blog/the-evolution-of-cooperation-axelrodPicture
Coming up soon... 
]]><![CDATA[Hello, world!]]>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:07:42 GMThttps://www.meltemyucel.com/blog/hello-worldI have been meaning to start a blog for a while. Mainly for the purpose of keeping track of the books I've read and maybe to practice writing a bit more.

Bear with me as I figure out how blogging works; I haven't used Weebly's blog feature before. Expect the first few posts to be weird. 

As I was thinking about a possible title, I realized: What better way to start my first post than the classic 'Hello, world!'

# This program prints Hello, world!
print('Hello, world!')

Cheers,
Meltem]]>