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Simon Baron-Cohen

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in London, The United Kingdom

August 15, 1958

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Simon Baron-Cohen FBA is Professor of Developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has worked on autism, including the theory that autism involves degrees of mind-blindness (or delays in the development of theory of mind) and his later theory that autism is an extreme form of what he calls the "male brain", which involved a re-conceptualisation of typical psychological sex differences in terms of empathising-systemising theory. ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 7,986 ratings · 764 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty 3.78 avg rating — 5,548 ratings — published 2011 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism 3.63 avg rating — 835 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention 3.58 avg rating — 724 ratings — published 2020 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autism and Asperger Syndrome 3.86 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind by Simon Baron-Cohen, Leda Cosmides (Foreword by), John Tooby (Foreword by) 3.82 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autism: The Facts by Simon Baron-Cohen, Patrick Bolton 3.49 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience by Simon Baron-Cohen (Editor), Helen Tager-Flusberg, Donald J. Cohen 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Synaesthesia: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Simon Baron-Cohen (Editor), John E. Harrison (Editor), Ian McDonald (Foreword by) 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asperger Syndrome: A Different Mind 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mind Reading Emotions Library: The Interactive Guide to Emotions 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.”
― Simon Baron-Cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

tags: abuse, anti-social, behaviour, child-abuse, compassion, education, empathy, parenting, personality-disorders, psychology, psychopath, psychopathy, sociopathy, trauma

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“empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.”
― simon baron-cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

tags: psychology

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“I remember sitting in the Beth Shalom synagogue in Cambridge on the night of Kol Nidre. Peter Lipton, a friend and an atheist philosopher, was giving a sermon on the theme of “atonement:” “If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it is only 0.1 percent of their makeup, then by focusing on their good part, we humanize them. By acknowledging and attending to and rewarding their good part, we allow it to grow, like a small flower in a desert.”
― Simon Baron-Cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

tags: psychology

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