Boo! culture, experience, and the startle reflex /
Simons, Ronald C.
Boo! culture, experience, and the startle reflex / [electronic resource] : Ronald C. Simons. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. - x, 272 p. : ill. - Series in affective science . - Series in affective science. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Startle reaction--Social aspects.
Startle reaction--Cross-cultural studies.
Latah (Disease)--Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
QP372.6 / .S57 1996
304.5
Boo! culture, experience, and the startle reflex / [electronic resource] : Ronald C. Simons. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. - x, 272 p. : ill. - Series in affective science . - Series in affective science. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Startle reaction--Social aspects.
Startle reaction--Cross-cultural studies.
Latah (Disease)--Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
QP372.6 / .S57 1996
304.5