Extreme Female Brain

Empathy, Cognition, and In-Group Preferences

October 4, 2012

The speculative post on empathy generated a great set of comments over on Facebook , but I think the discussion was weighed down by the framing from the original article regarding “Extreme Female Brain.” Those (like Cordelia Fine ) who have rejected the account of autism-spectrum disorders as “Extreme Male Brain” have largely done so…

Can there be an excess of empathy? How would we know?

October 1, 2012

BPS has a gloss on this paper by Bremser and Gallup , which suggests that eating disorders and social anxiety may be an example of Extreme Female Brain : too much concern about what other people think and feel is associated with fear of negative evaluations, which may be expressed through apprehension and distress over negative…