Simon Baron-Cohen

People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

The idea of a cure for autism is itself controversial. Some people with autism say they don't want to be cured, because…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Autistic people's disabilities are widely known, but one of their best-established strengths is their attention to detail.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

I try to keep an open mind.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Autism spectrum disorders are linked to other problems: Most of the people we see in our Asperger clinic for adults also suffer…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

What we want is that one day every workplace will be diverse - we already encourage that with gender and ethnicity, but…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

When I first started in this field there were all kinds of stereotypes about autism, as if these were children from another…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

A diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can be useful to help a person understand why they have had difficulties.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Because people with autism are also strongly obsessional, meaning that they pursue their current interest to extraordinary detail and lengths and in…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

In general it's good to give children as wide a choice as possible, and there is no harm in encouraging children to…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

If you have high-functioning autism, you may well have a lot of autistic traits but if you've got a particular lifestyle where…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

With the right support and reasonable adjustments, autistic people make wonderful employees.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Well, in the general population, we find differences between the typical male and typical female. For example, males seem to be more…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Hundreds of studies of various cultures have proven that, on average, boys play more than girls with constructional toys like Lego and…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

The E-S theory does not stereotype. Rather, it seeks to explain why individuals are typical or atypical for their sex.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being…

— Simon Baron-Cohen