Men and women really do think differently, according to the world's largest study of sex differences in the brain. Scientists found men are typically less good with feelings and more likely to want to know how things work. While women are more interested in people and emotions. The study also compared autism with male personality traits and uncovered striking similarities. On the back of their findings, the researchers said autism is an extreme version of the'male brain' which makes it harder to read others' emotions.

Autism is an extreme version of the'male brain' which makes it harder to read others' emotions, a major study suggests. The world's largest study comparing autism with male personality traits has found striking similarities. Men, like people with autism, are typically less good with feelings and more likely to want to know how things work. The world's largest study comparing autism with male personality traits has found striking similarities (stock) Compared to women, they tend to be more uneasy in social situations, less socially perceptive and may fail to understand why they have caused offence. Researchers at the University of Cambridge, who analysed personality tests for more than half a million men and women, found both men and autistic people were more'systematic' than'empathetic'.