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Sexualized Brains : Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective.
Title:
Sexualized Brains : Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective.
Author:
Karafyllis, Nicole C.
ISBN:
9780262276719
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (457 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Intelligent Emotions and Sexualized Brains-Discourses, Scientific Models, and Their Interdependencies -- I Historical Analysis: Cultural and Scientific Forces -- 2 Genius, Gender, and Elite in the History of the Neurosciences -- 3 The Biosexual Foundations of Our Modern Concept of Gender -- 4 Emotional Styles and Modern Forms of Life -- II Emotions in the Laboratories: Methods and Impacts -- 5 Technology Assessment of Neuroimaging: Sex and Gender Perspectives -- 6 Emotional Intelligence, Professional Qualifications, and Psychologists' Need for Gender Research -- 7 Emotional Intelligence as Pop Science, Misled Science, and Sound Science: A Review and Critical Synthesis of Perspectives from the Field of Psychology -- III Socioeconomic Contexts: Emotional Brains at Work -- 8 Emotional Capital, Therapeutic Language, and the Habitus of "The New Man" -- 9 Technologies of the Emotional Self: Affective Computing and the "Enhanced Second Skin" for Flexible Employees -- 10 The Economic Brain: Neuroeconomics and "Post-Autistic Economics" through the Lens of Gender -- IV Self-Representations: The Human Person and Her Emotional Media -- 11 Emotional Intelligence at the Interface of Brain Function, Communication, and Culture: The Role of Media Aesthetics in Shaping Empathy -- 12 Oneself as Another? Autism and Emotional Intelligence as Pop Science, and the Establishment of "Essential" Differences -- 13 Social Emotions and Brain Research: From Neurophilosophy to a Neurosociology of Law -- References -- About the Authors -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Color Insert.
Abstract:
The cultural and political implications of research on emotions and recent studies of the "essential difference" in male and female brains and behaviors.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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