Empathizing and systemizing in males, females and autism: A test of the neural competition theory

Empathy in Mental Illness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 322-334

  Goldenfeld, Nigel ^a   Baron Cohen, Simon ^b   Wheelwright, Sally ^b   Ashwin, Chris ^b   Chakrabarti, Bhismadev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511543753.019     Document Type: Chapter

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