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The Essential Difference - Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (Paperback)
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The Essential Difference - Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (Paperback)
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Simon Baron-Cohen's The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the
Extreme Male Brain is an unflinching look at the scientific
evidence behind the innate sex differences of the mind. Men and
women have always seemed to think in entirely different ways, from
conversation and communication to games and gadgets. But are these
differences created by society, or do our minds come ready-wired
one way or another, with female brains tending towards interaction
and male towards organisation? And could this mean that autism -
rather than being a mental anomaly - is in fact simply an extreme
male brain? Why are female brains better at empathasing? How are
male brains designed to analyse systems? And what really makes men
and women different? Simon Baron-Cohen explores list-making, lying
and two decades of research in a ground-breaking examination of how
our brains can be male or female but always completely fascinating.
'Compelling ... Inspiring' Guardian 'This is no Mars/Venus whimsy,
but the conclusion from twenty years of experiment' Evening
Standard 'A devastating contribution to the gender debate' Mail on
Sunday 'A fascinating, thought-provoking book' Observer Simon
Baron-Cohen is Professor at Cambridge University in the fields of
psychology and psychiatry. He is also the Director of Cambridge's
internationally renowned Autism Research Centre. He has carried out
research into social neuroscience over a career spanning twenty
years. He is the author of Mindblindness and Zero Degrees of
Empathy.
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