Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Karafyllis, Nicole C., 1970-
• Ulshöfer, Gotlind, 1967-

Description

xvii, 429 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Subject

• Sex differences (Psychology)
• Sex role > Psychological aspects
• Emotional intelligence

Note

• "A Bradford book".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 08-7896

ISBN

• 9780262113175 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262113171 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008008736

OCLC

213358040

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Karafyllis, Nicole C., 1970-

Ulshöfer, Gotlind, 1967-

Research Call Number

JFE 08-7896