What kind of brain do you have? There really are big differences between the male and female brain, says Simon Baron-Cohen. And they could help explain conditions such as autism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026…
Test: How male or female is your brain?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/page/0,12983,937…
The following tests were developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.
Baron-Cohen’s theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems. He calls it the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory.
Empathising is the drive to identify another person’s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion. The empathiser intuitively figures out how people are feeling, and how to treat people with care and sensitivity.
Systemising is the drive to analyse and explore a system, to extract underlying rules that govern the behaviour of a system; and the drive to construct systems.
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