How Men and Women Think | Helena Cronin, Gina Rippon, Simon Baron-Cohen

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Are mental differences between the sexes real, or is this just sexism dressed up as science?

Cambridge psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, Darwinian philosopher Helena Cronin and eminent neuroscientist Gina Rippon debate how men and women think.

Gina Rippon is professor of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. Rippon has also sat on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychophysiology. She is author of many books of cognitive neuroscience, including her latest book, Gender and our Brains (2019).

Helena Cronin is a British Darwinian philosopher and rationalist. She is the co-director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science and the Darwin Centre at the London School of Economics.

Simon Baron-Cohen is a British clinical psychologist and professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College. He is author of The Essential Difference, The Science of Evil and Zero Degrees of Empathy.

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