The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain

The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain
ISBN-10
0713996714
ISBN-13
9780713996715
Series
The Essential Difference
Category
Psychology / General
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Allen Lane
Author
Simon Baron-Cohen

Description

Simon Baron-Cohen shows that, indisputably, on average male and female minds are of a slightly different character. Men tend to be better at analysing systems (better systemisers), while women tend to be better at reading the emotions of other people (better empathisers). Baron-Cohen shows that this distinction arises from biology, not culture. He also introduces the extreme male brain theory of autism.

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