Simon Baron-Cohen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Empathy #Understanding #Brain
If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it is only 0.1 percent of their makeup, then by focusing on their good part, we humanize them. By acknowledging and attending to and rewarding their good part, we allow it to grow, like a small flower in a desert.
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Flower #Makeup #Views
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Children #Punishment #Discipline
Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Thinking #Empathy #Focus
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Empathy #Problem
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Empathy #Political #Way
Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Empathy #Definitions
What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary
-- Simon Baron-Cohen

#Play #Differences #Worry

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Empathy grows as we learn.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.
When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

Simon Baron-Cohen famous quotes

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