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The expressiveness of perceptual experience : physiognomy reconsidered / Martin S. Lindauer, the College at Brockport, State University of New York.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindauer, Martin S.
- Series:
- Consciousness & emotion book series ; v. 8.
- Consciousness & emotion book series, 1566-5836 ; volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physiognomy.
- Physiognomy in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A face strikes us immediately as sad, and so, too, do a mourner, a willow tree, a house on a prairie, and a group of onlookers. The spontaneous emergence of affective and other qualities of people, things, places, and events falls under the heading of physiognomy, a phenomenon discussed since at least Aristotle, and a key feature of evolutionary theory, psychology, and perception as well as professional practice ("profiling") and popular talk. However, physiognomy is a controversial topic because of a suspect history, and is often renamed as non-verbal communication.The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy Reconsidered examines this venerable, attractive, and contentious topic within the unique perspective of research-oriented psychology. Included are the processes involved, primarily perceptual; origins, mainly evolutionary; and social-cultural factors as supplements. Discussed within a holistic-experiential (phenomenological)-aesthetic framework are physiognomy's ties to the arts as well as emotions, synesthesia, learning, development, and personality. Empirical investigations are summarized, including the author's.
- Contents:
- part I. Background
- part II. Physiognomy and the arts
- part III. A perceptual framework for physiognomy
- part Ivolume Answers and questions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789027271112
- 9027271119
- OCLC:
- 860923785
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