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Nicole C. Karafyllis

Nicole C. Karafyllis is Full Professor of Philosophy in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at United Arab Emirates University.

Titles by This Editor

Sexualized Brains

Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective
Edited by Nicole C. Karafyllis and Gotlind Ulshöfer

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 "essential differences" in male and female brains and behaviors—is based on neuroscience research and neuroimages of emotions.