The Essential Difference by Simon Baron-Cohen

The Essential Difference by 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? The author explores list-making, lying and two decades of research in a ground-breaking examination of how our brains can be male or female.

This is no Mars/Venus whimsy, but the conclusion fron twenty years of experiment * Evening Standard *
This is a fascinating, thought-provoking bookWomen will want to talk about it. Men will sit silent and brood over its details * Observer *
Compelling... the book's final and probably most controversial argument is a treat for those who simply enjoy a good idea * Guardian *
A thought-provoking take on the minds of men and women * Evening Standard *
A devastating new contribution to the gender debate...dynamite * Mail on Sunday *
The minds of men and women are very different - and here at last is the scientific proof... scholarly but never dry, this will definitely provoke lively discussion * Daily Mail *

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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ISBN 13	9780241961353
ISBN 10	0241961351
Title	The Essential Difference
Author	Simon Baron-Cohen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2012-06-07
Number of pages	288
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