TY - GEN AU - Baron-Cohen, Simon TI - Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain SN - 9780241961353 U1 - 155.33 BAR PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Men-Psychology KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Women-Psychology N2 - Men and women have always seemed to think in entirely different ways, from conversation and communication to games and gadgets. But are these differences created by society, or do our minds come ready-wired one way or another, with female brains tending towards interaction and male towards organisation? And could this mean that autism rather than being a mental anomaly is in fact simply an extreme male brain? Why are female brains better at empathising? How are male brains designed to analyse systems? And what really makes men and women different? Simon Baron-Cohen explores list-making, lying and two decades of research in a ground-breaking examination of how our brains can be male or female but always completely fascinating ER -