TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simons,Ronald C.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Boo!: culture, experience, and the startle reflex 
T2  - Series in affective science
AV  - QP372.6 .S57 1996
U1  - 304.5 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Startle reaction
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Latah (Disease)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=271099
ER  -