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 new second book, Delusions of Gender: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference will be published in August 2010.

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, Department of Philosophy, at Macquarie University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Melbourne.

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


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