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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.

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

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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

Simon Baron-Cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen

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Born: August 15, 1958 (age 68)

Bio: Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College.

Known for:

The essential difference (2003)
Autism and Asperger Syndrome (2008)

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