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Dr Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist and writer.

She has been described as "that rare academic who's also an excellent writer" (Library Journal), "clear, engaging, humorous" (Science Books & Films), a "cognitive neuroscientist with a sharp sense of humour and an intelligent sense of reality" (The Times), and "a science writer to watch" (Metro).

Cordelia is the author of A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives, and writes regularly for the press. She wrote the introduction for the Britannica Guide to the Brain, and her second book, Delusions of Gender: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference is now published. A Pick of the Week book, Publishers Weekly describes Delusions of Gender as "a fabulous combination of wit, passion, and scholarship" and a "marvelous and important book [that] will change the way readers view the gendered world."

Cordelia studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, followed by an M.Phil in Criminology at Cambridge University. She was awarded a Ph.D in Psychology from University College London. From 2002 to 2007 she was a Research Associate at Monash University, and then at the Australian National University. She is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Agency, Values & Ethics at Macquarie University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Cordelia lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and two sons.

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