Boo! culture, experience, and the startle reflex /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Series in affective science.
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Table of 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.