“Systemizing and empathizing are wholly different kinds of processes. You use one process—empathizing—for making sense of an individual’s behavior, and you use the other—systemizing—for predicting almost everything else. To systemize you need detachment in order to monitor information and track which factors cause information to vary. To empathize you need some degree of attachment in order to recognize that you are interacting with a person, not an object, but a person with feelings, and whose feelings affect your own.”
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The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
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Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen is a British psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist renowned for his research in the field of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Born on August 15, 1958, he is currently a professor at King's College, Cambridge. more
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