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The Double Empathy Problem is DEEP

By Helen Edgar More Realms 30 Jul 2025 1 MIN READ

“The growing cracks in the thin veneer of our “civilised” economic and social operating model are impossible to ignore”, Jorn Bettin (2021). The double empathy problem (Milton, 2012) creates a gap of disconnect experienced between people due to misunderstood shared lived experiences. It is “a breakdown in reciprocity…

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