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cognitive neuroscientist; author 'Zero Degrees of Empathy', 'The Essential Difference', 'Mindblindness' and 'The Pattern Seekers'. Tweets are my opinions
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Cambridge Profesörü Arday Evinde Ölü Bulundu

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By Muaz Kalaycı Verified, Jason Arday, Simon Baron-Cohen
| Haber Aktuel Verified
Cambridge Üniversitesi’nin en genç Siyah profesörü olan Jason Arday, geçtiğimiz Cuma günü ölü bulundu. Ailesi, 41 yaşındaki akademisyenin “nazik bir adam” olduğunu ve yıllardır “sürekli tacize” maruz kaldığını açıkladı. Arday, geçtiğimiz ay intihal iddiaları ve yoğun eleştirilerin ardından istifa etmişti.
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On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

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By Simon Baron-Cohen
| The Montreal Review Verified
When we try to explain acts of human cruelty, there is no scientific value in the term 'evil' but there is scientific value in using the term 'empathy erosion'. The key claim in my book is that when people commit acts of cruelty, a specific circuit in the brain ("the empathy circuit") goes down. This might be temporarily (for example, when we are stressed) or in a more enduring way.
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The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism after 25 years

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By Simon Baron-Cohen, Alex Tsompanidis, Deepak Srivastava, Jonathan Mill, Madeline A. Lancaster, Varun Warrier, Dwaipayan Adhya
| Nature Verified
Abstract We first proposed the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism 25 years ago to account for a number of then-unexplained observations around autism, including (1) the more frequent diagnosis of autism in male than in female individuals and (2) apparent ‘male-type’ shifts in cognitive traits associated with autism, such as empathizing and systemizing. Here we review 25 years of research testing this theory.
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