Autism: The Empathizing–Systemizing (E‐S) Theory

By Simon Baron-Cohen. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Genetics

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Citations in the corpus

• The Emerging Study of Positive Empathy (2015, background): “Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders have difficulty empathizing and interpreting what others are thinking or feeling (Baron-Cohen, 2009), whereas psychopaths can often recognize others’ emotions but do not share others’ affective states (Blair, 2005; Blair, Jones, Clark, & Smith, 1997).”
• Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “Consider anecdotal reports (Grandin & Barron, 2004 ) and empirical studies (Baron-Cohen, 2009 ; Baron-Cohen, Richler, Bisarya, Gurunathan, & Wheelwright, 2003 ) suggesting that individuals with ASD often compensate for mind perception deficits by using systemized rules to elaboratively “work out””
• The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition (2015, background): “…predict based on theories that suggest that the ability to interpret the emotions and mental states of others may compete in some way with the ability to understand physical, rules-based systems (Baron-Cohen, 2009; Manson & Winterbottom, 2012; Wakabayashi et al., 2007; Wright & Skagerberg, 2012).”
• Empathy, sex and fluid intelligence as predictors of theory of mind (2013, neutral): “It is assumed that sex differences also affect ToM; the higher levels of ToM observed in females may be explained by the female brain’s capacity for empathy (Baron-Cohen, 2009).”
• The Neural Bases for Empathy (2011, background): “Theory of mind (ToM) may be defined as the ability to put oneself into someone else’s shoes, imagine their thoughts and feelings (Baron-Cohen 2009).”
• High School Math and Science Preparation and Postsecondary STEM Participation for Students With an Autism Spectrum Disorder (2017, background): “…with an ASD in STEM careers, and the few articles that are available assume that STEM-related academic and occupational pursuits are primarily related to their innate interests in the STEM field (Baron-Cohen, 2009; Baron-Cohen et al., 2007; Wei, Christiano, et al., 2013; Wei et al., 2012).”