Creating perceived connectedness converts counter-empathy back into genuine empathy.

Evidence

If a sense of social connectedness is created, so that the joys and distresses of an outsider foretell similar experiences for oneself, counter empathy is transformed into empathy. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 648

Categorization

• XREF: The reversible architecture of empathy supports deliberative-democracy or contact-theory interventions that vault claims about authoritarianism would otherwise imply are hopeless.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 648