Baron-Cohen

To help autistic children understand emotions, Baron-Cohen and his team use eight track-based vehicles in their DVD.

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Citing the research of Simon Baron-Cohen, favoured authority of the neuroscience best-sellers, on sex difference, Beattie explains why empathy-deficient males might express aggression as bad driving: "In evolutionary terms, this direct form of aggression is a very efficient strategy for establishing social dominance or resolving social conflict."

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Baron-Cohen is right, a combination of a brain scan, a genotyping and a case history could "diagnose" many or even most cruel personalities, perhaps even before they commit crimes.

Do Our Genes Decide if We're Kind or Cruel? Matt Ridley 2011

Autism, Baron-Cohen believes, is a condition where people perceive systems and patterns while remaining almost oblivious to other people and their feelings.

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And for those that believe evil, when it occurs, is unfathomable, Simon Baron-Cohen shakes things up with "The Science of Evil."

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Baron-Cohen went on, it would at least be interesting to take a look at bin Laden's MAOA gene (linked to aggression), his AVPR1A and CNR1 genes (linked to emotional expression) and his CYP11B1, NTRK1, and GABRB3 genes, which show some association with how individuals score on a scale called the "Empathy Quotient."

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I put this question to the psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the author of a new book called "The Science of Evil" and a cousin of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

Do Our Genes Decide if We're Kind or Cruel? Matt Ridley 2011

Neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen calls these qualities an internal pot of gold that good parents share with their offspring.

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Baron-Cohen argues, the "empathy circuit," which runs through 10 different regions of the brain, goes down either temporarily or permanently, leaving the person with "zero empathy."

Do Our Genes Decide if We're Kind or Cruel? Matt Ridley 2011

About a decade ago, Baron-Cohen suggested that autism — which is much less likely to afflict girls — might be an extreme version of the typical male brain.

Video Learnings of Autistic Children for Make Glorious Recognition of Smiling Faces | clusterflock 2009