On Feb 15, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Mueller <jfmuel...@noctrl.edu> wrote:

> I believe poor William did think he was creating high art.

Yes, he did. The introduction by Bernie Taupin--thelyricist for the song--shows 
that this was intended to be serious:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I

On Feb 15, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote:

> Take a look at the following:
> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0018675#pone-0018675-g002
> and
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654216/

Thanks, Mike. I shouldn't have dismissed so cavalierly the possible association 
of measures of "empathy." I still sometimes forget my dissertation advisor's 
comment every time I did something similar: "it's an empirical question."

Best,
Jeff
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