Boo! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex
Series: Series in Affective Science;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 November 1996
- ISBN 9780195096262
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 241x164x20 mm
- Weight 584 g
- Language English
- Illustrations black and white photographs throughout 0
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Short description:
Simons uses the startle reflex as a revealing model for covering how evolved neurophysiology shapes personal experience, patterns of recurrence in actions, and the systems of meaning people collectively create and transmit. Using diverse sources, Simons observes how biology is expressed in culture.
MoreLong description:
It is quite common to reflect on what startles you. In the most diverse social contexts and cultures, the inescapable physiology of the reflex both shapes the experience of startle and biases the social usage to which the reflex is put. This book describes the ways in which the reflex is experienced, culturally elaborated, and socially used, and offers explanations for both patterned commonalities found across cultures, and for the culture-typical differences which differing cultural systems engender.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I: 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 their Expository Uses
The Startle Museum II: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Properties of Startle Events
Part II: Latah and Other Startle-Matching Syndromes
Attention Capture and the Startle-Matching Syndromes
Latah: The Paradigmatic Startle-Matching Syndrome
Explaining Latah: The Importance of Descriptive Detail
The Startle-Matching Syndrome in Other Cultures
Culture, Biology, and Individual Experience
