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The essential difference, Simon Baron-Cohen

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Includes bibliographical references: (p. [217]-256) and index

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The essential difference

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Simon Baron-Cohen

Why are female brains better at empathasing? How are male brains designed to analyse systems? And what really makes men and women different? 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? 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

1.The Male and Female Brain -- 2.Boy Meets Girl -- 3.What is Empathizing? -- 4.The Female Brain as Empathizer: The Evidence -- 5.What is Systemizing? -- 6.The Male Brain as Systemizer: The Evidence -- 7.Culture -- 8.Biology -- 9.Evolution of the Male and Female Brain -- 10.Autism: The Extreme Male Brain -- 11.A Professor of Mathematics -- 12.The Extreme Female Brain: Back to the Future

Essential difference, men, women and the extreme male brain