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Rami Gabriel is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology and currently a Visiting Fellow at the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies in Aarhus University, Denmark. Trained as a cognitive and perceptual scientist, he has written on memory, self, emotion, prosopagnosia, consciousness, and the philosophy of cognitive science. He has published three books, A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology, The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition (co-authored with Dr. Stephen T. Asma), and Why I Buy: Self, Taste, and Consumer Society in America.

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A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology

Oxford University Press, 2023

The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition

Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel

Harvard University Press, 2019

Why I Buy: Self, Taste, and Consumer Society in America

Intellect, 2013

Select Recent Publications

“Sensible Affective Knowledge of Imaginary Orders in Art.” In Religion and the Work of Art, edited by Bryan S. Rennie. Equinox Press, 2026 (forthcoming).

“Inter-level explanation: the case of neuropsychoanalysis.” Synthese 206 (2025).

“Epistemic Cultural Constraints on the Uses of Psychology.” New Ideas in Psychology 68 (2023).

“The deep history of affect and consciousness: Commentary on Joseph Ledoux.” Philosophical Psychology 36, no. 4 (2023).

“The pragmatic use of metaphor in empirical psychology.” History of the Human Sciences 35, no. 3–4 (2022).

“The motivational role of affect in an ecological model.” Theory & Psychology 31, no. 4 (2021).