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Creating a Neuroinclusive Profession: Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem

By Timothy J. Vogus

Tim Vogus uses personal experience and scholarship to show how the “double empathy problem” (mutual misunderstandings between neurotypical and neurodivergent people) shapes academic workplaces, peer review, hiring and onboarding. He offers concrete recommendations for shifting mindsets, changing interpersonal practices, and redesigning structures so our profession better includes and benefits from a wider range of minds.

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