By Nicole C. Karafyllis, Gotlind Ulshöfer

The now-popular concept that feelings have an clever middle (and the opposite, that intelligence has an emotional middle) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. equally, the basic sexualization of the brain--the new curiosity in "essential variations" in female and male brains and behaviors--is in accordance with neuroscience learn and neuroimages of feelings. In Sexualized Brains, students from a variety of disciplines give some thought to the epistemological claims that emotional intelligence (EI) should be positioned within the mind and that it really is valid to characteristic specified forms of feelings to the organic sexes. The mind, as an icon, has colonized the arts and social sciences, resulting in the emergence of such new disciplines as neurosociology, neuroeconomics, and neurophilosophy. Neuroscience and psychology now have the ability to remodel not just the perform of technological know-how yet additionally modern society. those advancements, the essays during this quantity express, will quickly impact the very middle of gender experiences. participants learn historic perspectives of gender, intercourse, and elite brains (the influential inspiration of the "genius"); options for representing and measuring feelings and EI (including neuroimaging and pa science); the socioeconomic contexts of debates on elites, EI, and gender and the underlying strength of the mind as a version to legitimize social disparities. ContributorsAnne Bartsch, Carmen Baumeler, Myriam Bechtoldt, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Malte-Christian Gruber, Michael Hagner, Bärbel Hüsing, Eva Illouz, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Carolyn MacCann, Gerald Matthews, Robert Nye, William Reddy, Richard D. Roberts, Ralf Schulze, Gotlind Ulshöfer, Moshe Zeidner

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All chosen types involve continua and are not discrete attributes. Of course, black/white also involves continua of color, but color can be more easily stereotyped (see Berger 1999), for example, by scientists’ choice of photographs, than attractiveness. And what is the binary other of transsexual? Not transsexual? Heterosexual? Same sex sexual? Taking a closer look, it appears that this study focuses not on stereotypes but on normality and its opposite, the construction of abnormality. This is a slight but nevertheless important difference.

Even if women are endowed with equal economic capital, other types of capital which could make all the difference might still be lacking. , 92), seen as a proof of the “femaleness” of their brains, is based on other than economic forms of capital. Australian “technofeminist” Judy Wajcman (2004) points out that nowadays there is much more gender equity in 20 Nicole C. ) than in decades and centuries past (of course, in reference to other artifacts). Nevertheless, she argues, at the design stage women still rarely enter engineering and information technology contexts, and once they have entered, they are less encouraged to continue than their male counterparts (see also Leicht-Scholten 2007).

05, measured on a scale ranging from −2 (“not at all”) to +2 (“very much”). 05) of parameter estimates at peak of nucleus accumbens activation [−9, 6, −3] for the (pain in unfair–pain in fair) contrast in men with expressed desire for revenge in men. There was no correlation for women. (Source: Singer, Seymour, O’Doherty, Stephan, Dolan, and Frith. 2006. ) 16 Nicole C. Karafyllis and Gotlind Ulshöfer the world and its entities existing in time and space. They constitute a sort of architecture—of society, of science, of human life, of biological life, of nature.

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