One perspective on antisocial behavior partly attributes the disorder to an inhibition of the tendency of social animals to find the distress of conspecifics aversive. Blair (2005, 2008) divides empathy into dissociable subtypes. Specifically, he draws the distinction between cognitive and emotional empathy. In psychopathy, there seems to be no impairment in cognitive empathy; indeed, diagnosed patients tend to perform as well or even better than controls on ToM tests (Blair et al. 1996; Richell et al.