Boo! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex

The startle reflex provides a revealing model for examining the ways in which evolved neurophysiology shapes personal experience & patterns of recurrent social interaction. This book describes ways in which the startle reflex is experienced in the most diverse cultural contexts, culturally elaborated, & socially used in a wide variety of times & places. It offers explanations both for the patterned commonalties found across cultural settings & for the differences engendered by diverse social environments. Boo! will intrigue readers in fields such as psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, etc.Simons, Ronald C. is the author of 'Boo! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex' with ISBN 9780788167492 and ISBN 0788167499.