Book Reviews

Baron-Cohen, S, (2019) The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon: Review — do men and women have different brains? The Times, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-gendered-brain-by-gina-rippon-review-do-men-and-women-have-different-brains-vq757qnph.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2018) Reasons to love the F-Word. Review of Forgiveness is really strange by Masi Noor & Marina Cantacuzino. The Psychologist, 31, 72.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2018) The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion. Review of Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer. Nature, 557, 305-306.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2017) Empathy is good, right? A new book says we’re better off without it. Review of Bloom, P, ‘Against empathy: the case for rational compassion’. The New York Times, 1 January 2017.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2015) Hero or collaborator? Review of Silberman, S, ‘Neurotribes: the legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently’. The Spectator, September, 2015.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2015) Leo Kanner, Hans Asperger, and the discovery of autism. The Lancet, 386, 1329-1330.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2013) Little angels. Review of Bloom, P, ‘Just Babies: the origins of good and evil’. The New York Times. December.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2011) Sex differences – a welcome dialogue. Review of Fine, C, ‘Delusions of Gender’. The Psychologist 24, 3.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2011) Making sense of the brain’s mysteries. Review of Ramachandran, V, S, ‘The tell-tale brain: a neuroscientist’s quest for what makes us human’. American Scientist, 99, 340-341.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2010) Delusions of gender -“neurosexism”, biology and politics. Review of Fine, C, “Delusions of Gender”. The Psychologist 23, 904-905.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2006) Differently wired. Review of Coleman, M (ed.) ‘The Neurology of Autism’, Oxford University Press. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 5.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2006) Living with autism: Joe, the extreme systemiser. The Lancet, 367, 1047-1048.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2006) Review of Blastland, M, ‘Joe, the only boy in the world’. Lancet, 367, 1047-1048.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2006) Review of Cacioppo, J, J, Visser, P, S, & Pickett, C, L, (eds.) ‘Social Neuroscience: People thinking about thinking people’. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 20, 262.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2006) Learning to be ordinary. Review of Nazeer, K, ‘Send in the Idiots’. Prospects, May, 66-67.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2006) Review of Nazeer, K, ‘Send in the Idiots’. The Guardian.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2005) Review of Repacholi, B & Slaughter’s V. ‘Individual differences in Theory of Mind: Implications for Typical and Atypical Development’. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 499.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2005) Why cows hate yellow. Review of Grandin’s and Johnson’s ‘Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour’. The Guardian.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2004) Review of Gillberg’s ‘A Guide to Asperger Syndrome’, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 49, 427-428.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2004) Review of Haddon’s ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night’. Autism, 8, 449-450.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2004) Expect the unexpected. Review of ‘George & Sam: Autism in the Family’, Charlotte Moore, (Viking) The Sunday Telegraph, May 23^rd.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2003) A mature view of autism. Review of Frith’s ‘Autism: Explaining the Enigma’, Blackwell Publishing, 2^nd Edition. TRENDS in Cognitive Science, 7, 380-383.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2002) I am loved, therefore I think. Review of Hobson, P ‘The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking’, Nature, 416, 791-792.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2002), Review of Hermelin’s ‘Bright Splinters of the Mind: A personal story of research with autistic savants’, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41, 329-330.

Baron-Cohen, S, (2001) Feeling our way. Review of Evans, D ‘Emotion: the science of sentiment.’ Nature, 410, 520.
Baron-Cohen, S, (2001) Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes. Review of Duffy, P ‘Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their World.’ Cerebrum, The Dana Press, 3, 74-79.

Baron-Cohen, S, (1999) Peering into a child’s priorities. Review of Rich Harris, Judith ‘The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do’. Nature, 398, 675-676.

Baron-Cohen, S, (1998) Thumbs up for signal work. Review of Darwin, C ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man Animals’ Third Edition. Nature, 392, 459-460.

Baron-Cohen, S, (1990) Book review of Laura Schreibman’s ‘Autism’. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 20, 285-288.

Baron-Cohen, S, (1987) Book review of Keri Hulme’s ‘The Bone People’, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 18, 473-474.