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Simon Baron-Cohen is a professor of developmental psychopathology in the departments of psychiatry and experimental psychology, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. He obtained a PhD in psychology at University College London. He is best known for his work on autism, including his early theory that autism involves degrees of "mindblindness" (or delays in the development of theory of mind), and his later theory that autism is an extreme form of the "male brain", which involved a major reconceptualization of typical psychological sex differences in terms of empathy, and systemizing.