The Essential Difference

Informationen zum Autor Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor at Cambridge University in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. He is also the Director of the Autism Research Centre there. He has carried out research into social neuroscience over a 20 year career. His popular science book entitled The Essential Difference (Penguin 2003) has been translated in over a dozen languages, and has been widely reviewed. Klappentext 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 . Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Baron-Cohen, Baron-Cohen Simon
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780241961353
• ISBN: 978-0-241-96135-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, SCIENCE / General, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Popular psychology, Psychology of gender