Sexualized brains : scientific modeling of emotional intelligence from a cultural perspective / edited by Nicole C. Karafyllis and Gotlind Ulshöfer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karafyllis, Nicole C., 1970-

Ulshöfer, Gotlind, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex differences (Psychology).

Sex role--Psychological aspects.

Emotional intelligence.

Physical Description:

xvii, 429 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: Intelligent emotions and sexualized brains discourses

Scientific models, and their interdependencies / Nicole Karafyllis and Gotlind Ulshöfer

Historical analysis : cultural and scientific forces

Genius, gender, and elite in the history of the neurosciences / Michael Hagner

The bio-sexual foundations of our modern concept of gender / Robert A. Nye

Emotional styles and modern forms of life / William M. Reddy

Emotions in the laboratories : methods and impacts

Technology assessment of neuroimaging : sex and gender perspectives / Bärbel Hüsing

Emotional intelligence, professional qualifications, and psychologists' need for gender research / Myriam N. Bechtoldt

Emotional intelligence as popscience, misled science, and sound

Science : a review and critical synthesis of perspectives from the field of psychology / Carolyn MacCann, Ralf Schulze, Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner and Richard D. Roberts

Socioeconomic contexts : emotional brains at work

Emotional capital, therapeutic language, and the habitus of the new man / Eva Illouz

Technologies of the emotional self : affective computing and the enhanced second skin for flexible employees / Carmen Baumeler

The economic brain : neuroeconomics and post-autistic-economics through the lens of gender / Gotlind Ulshöfer

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 / Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Anne Bartsch

Oneself as another autism and emotional intelligence as popscience and the establishment of essential differences / Nicole Karafyllis

Social emotions and brain research : from neurophilosophy to a neurosociology of law / Malte-Christian Gruber.

Notes:

"A Bradford book".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262113175

0262113171

OCLC:

213358040