| Descript |
1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Series in affective science |
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Series in affective science.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide |
| Subject |
Startle reaction -- Social aspects.
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Startle reaction -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Latah (Disease) -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Startle reaction.
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Reflex, Startle
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays. |
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Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst00884159 |
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Latah (Disease) (OCoLC)fst00992941 |
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Startle reaction. (OCoLC)fst01131738 |
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Startle reaction -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01131739 |
| ISBN |
1429400498 (electronic bk.) |
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9781429400497 |
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019535723X |
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9780195357233 |
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9780195096262 (cloth) |
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0195096266 (cloth) |
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1280528001 |
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9781280528002 |
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9786610528004 |
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6610528004 |
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