Simon Baron-Cohen
Psychologist, Author
1958 –
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Who is Simon Baron-Cohen?
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 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–systemizing theory.
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- Born
- Aug 15, 1958
London - Also known as
- Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen
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- Siblings
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- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University College London
- New College, Oxford
- King's College London
- University of Oxford
- Lived in
- England
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on July 23, 2013
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