Boo! : culture, experience, and the startle reflex
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Boo! : culture, experience, and the startle reflex
（Series in affective science / editors, Richard J. Davidson, Paul Ekman, Klaus R. Scherer）
Oxford University Press, 1996
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It is quite common to reflect on what startles you. In the most diverse social contexts and cultures, the inescapable physiology of the reflex both shapes the experience of startle and biases the social usage to which the reflex is put. This book describes the ways in which the reflex is experienced, culturally elaborated, and socially used, and offers explanations for both patterned commonalities found across cultures, and for the culture-typical differences which
differing cultural systems engender.
Table of Contents
- PART I: STARTLE AND HYPERSTARTLE
- Introduction
- 1. Startle as a Personal Experience and as a Social Resource
- 2. Making People Jumpy: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Create a Hyperstartler
- 3. Variations on a Theme: Being Startled Makes One Ill
- 4. The Startle Museum I: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by their Expository Uses
- 5. The Startle Museum II: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Properties of Startle Events
- PART II: LATAH AND OTHER STARTLE-MATCHING SYNDROMES
- 6. Attention Capture and the Startle-Matching Syndromes
- 7. Latah: The Paradigmatic Startle-Matching Syndrome
- 8. Explaining Latah: The Importance of Descriptive Detail
- 9. The Startle-Matching Syndrome in Other Cultures
- 10. Culture, Biology, and Individual Experience
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