Boo! : culture, experience, and the startle reflex /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Simons, Ronald C.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Series in affective science Series in affective science.
Subject:	Startle reaction -- Social aspects. Startle reaction -- Cross-cultural studies. Latah (Disease) -- Cross-cultural studies. Reflex, Startle. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Latah (Disease) Startle reaction. Startle reaction -- Social aspects. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11147009

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ISBN:	1429400498 9781429400497 019535723X 9780195357233 9780195096262 0195096266 1280528001 9781280528002 9786610528004 6610528004
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Simons, Ronald C. Boo!. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 0195096266

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.

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