Essential Difference Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain

Name: Essential Difference Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain
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ISBN: 9780241961353

ISBN-10: 0241961351

ISBN-13: 9780241961353

Edition: 2012

Authors: Simon Baron-Cohen

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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 twenty years of research in a ground-breaking examination of how our brains can be male or…

Book details

List price: $10.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publication date: 6/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.80" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English