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Boo! : culture, experience and the startle reflex / Ronald C. Simons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simons, Ronald C., author.
- Series:
- Series in affective science.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Series in affective science
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Startle reaction--Social aspects.
- Startle reaction.
- Startle reaction--Cross-cultural studies.
- Latah (Disease)--Cross-cultural studies.
- Latah (Disease).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Startle as a Personal Experience and as a Social Resource
- 3. Making People Jumpy: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Create a Hyperstartler
- 4. Variations on a Theme: Being Startled Makes One Ill
- 5. The Startle Museum I: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Their Expository Uses
- 6. The Startle Museum II: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Properties of Startle Events
- 7. Attention Capture and the Startle-Matching Syndromes
- 8. Latah: The Paradigmatic Startle-Matching Syndrome
- 9. Explaining Latah: The Importance of Descriptive Detail
- 10. The Startle-Matching Syndrome in Other Cultures
- 11. Culture, Biology, and Individual Experience
- App. List of Topics Discussed with Latahs
- App. List of Topics Discussed with Malaysian non-Latah Informants
- App. Latah Stories Reporting Form
- App. Script of the Film Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773479-0
- 1-280-52800-1
- 9786610528004
- 0-19-535723-X
- 1-4294-0049-8
- OCLC:
- 567932901
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