Sexualized Brains Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective

Name: Sexualized Brains Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective
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ISBN: 9780262113175

ISBN-10: 0262113171

ISBN-13: 9780262113175

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nicole C. Karafyllis, Gotlind Ulshï¿½fer

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The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain--the new interest in "t;essential differences"t; in male and female brains and behaviors--is based on neuroscience research and neuroimages of emotions. In Sexualized Brains,scholars from a range of disciplines reflect on the epistemological claims that emotional intelligence (EI) can be located in the brain and that it is legitimate to attribute distinct kinds of emotions to the biological sexes. The brain, as an icon, has colonized the humanities and social sciences, leading…

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List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/19/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English

Nicole C. Karafyllis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies at Johan Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt and University of Stuttgart.

Gotlind Ulshï¿½fer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt and Program Director for Economics, Business Ethics, and Gender at the Protestant Academy Arnoldshain, Germany.



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



Introduction


Intelligent Emotions and Sexualized Brains-Discourses, Scientific Models, and Their Interdependencies




Historical Analysis: Cultural and Scientific Forces



Genius, Gender, and Elite in the History of the Neurosciences




The Biosexual Foundations of Our Modern Concept of Gender




Emotional Styles and Modern Forms of Life




Emotions in the Laboratories: Methods and Impacts



Technology Assessment of Neuroimaging


Sex and Gender Perspectives




Emotional Intelligence, Professional Qualifications, and Psychologists' Need for Gender Research




Emotional Intelligence as Pop Science, Misled Science, and Sound Science


A Review and Critical Synthesis of Perspectives from the Field of Psychology




Socioeconomic Contexts: Emotional Brains at Work



Emotional Capital, Therapeutic Language, and the Habitus of "The New Man"




Technologies of the Emotional Self


Affective Computing and the "Enhanced Second Skin" for Flexible Employees




The Economic Brain


Neuroeconomics and "Post-Autistic Economics" through the Lens of Gender




Self-Representations: The Human Person and Her Emotional Media



Emotional Intelligence at the Interface of Brain Function, Communication, and Culture


The Role of Media Aesthetics in Shaping Empathy




Oneself as Another?


Autism and Emotional Intelligence as Pop Science, and the Establishment of "Essential" Differences




Social Emotions and Brain Research


From Neurophilosophy to a Neurosociology of Law



References


About the Authors


Name Index


Subject Index