![]() ![]() According to Baron-Cohen, describing barbaric behavior as “evil” explains nothing. The goal of this concise, accessible work is to understand human cruelty. But based on the new book, I want to read both. I have not read the first two works, Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind (MIT, 1995), his exploration of cognition and empathy with particular regard to autism, or The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain(Basic Books, 2003), which is about gender differences and emotional reactions to people, or affect, and empathy. T he Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty(Basic Books, 2011) is the third book in a trilogy by Simon Baron-Cohen, the renowned Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge (UK). ![]()
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