Boo! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex

Name: Boo! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex
Price: 73.29 USD
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ISBN: 9780195096262

ISBN-10: 0195096266

ISBN-13: 9780195096262

Edition: 1996

Authors: Ronald Simons

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The startle reflex provides a revealing model for examining the ways in which evolved neurophysiology shapes personal experience and patterns of recurrent social interaction. In the most diverse cultural contexts, in societies widely separated by time and space, the inescapable physiology of the reflex both shapes the experience of startle and biases the social usages to which the reflex is put. This book describes ways in which the startle reflex is experienced, culturally elaborated, and socially used in a wide variety of times and places. It offers explanations both for the patterned commonalities found across cultural settings and for the differences engendered by diverse social…

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/26/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.49" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English




Startle and Hyperstartle



Introduction



Startle as a Personal Experience and as a Social Resource



Making People Jumpy: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Create a Hyperstartler



Variations on a Theme: Being Startled Makes One Ill



The Startle Museum I: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by the Expository Uses



The Startle Museum II: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Properties of Startle Events



Latah and Other Startle-Matching Syndromes



Attention Capture and the Startle-Matching Syndromes



Latah: The Paradigmatic Startle-Machine Syndrome



Explaining Latah: The Importance of Descriptive Detail



The Startle-Matching Syndrome in Other Cultures



Culture, Biology, and Individual Experience