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T h e   E s s e n t i a l   D i f f e r e n c e
by Simon Baron-Cohen
 
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  List of Figures ix
  Acknowledgements xi
1 The Male and Female Brain 1
2 Boy Meets Girl 14
3 What is Empathizing? 23
4 The Female Brain as Empathizer: The Evidence 31
5 What is Systemizing? 63
6 The Male Brain as Systemizer: The Evidence 70
7 Culture 86
8 Biology 96
9 Evolution of the Male and Female Brain 117
10 Autism: The Extreme Male Brain 133
11 A Professor of Mathematics 155
12 The Extreme Female Brain: Back to the Future 170
  Appendix I: The Reading the Mind in the Eyes' Test 186
  Appendix 2: The Empathy Quotient (EQ) 200
  Appendix 3: The Systemizing Quotient (SQ) 206
  Appendix 4: The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) 212
  References 217
  Bibliography 227
  Index 257

 

 
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