Boo! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex PDF
by Ronald Simons
Part of the Series in Affective Science series
Description
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 environments. Boo! will intrigue readers in fields such as psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, general cultural anthropology, social psychology, cross-cultural psychiatry, evolutionary psychology, and human ethology.
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- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/09/1996
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/09/1996
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- ISBN:9780195357233
