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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Nationality
  • United Kingdom
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  • 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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