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Phrenology Experiments and Studies
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Definition
Phrenology is a 19th century pseudoscience claiming to be able to determine character on the basis of the shape and morphology (bumps) of the skull.
Background Information
- Phrenology - Wikipedia [View Resource]
- What Is Phrenology? [View Resource]
- Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) the originator of what later became phrenology [View Resource]
- Advocating Phrenology [View Resource]
- Phrenology (cranioscopy) - The Skeptic's Dictionary [View Resource]
- Phrenology: An Overview [View Resource]
- Terms & definitions associated with Phrenology [View Resource]
- Phrenology: History of a Pseudoscience [View Resource]
- The History of Phrenology on the Web [View Resource]
Experiments, Studies and Articles
- Reading Bumps and Faces; Phrenology and Physiognomy [View Experiment]
- Phrenology in America [View Experiment]
- Gall and phrenology: Speculation versus observation versus experiment [View Experiment]
- Phrenology: The beginnings of Localization of Function [View Experiment]
- Great American Skeptics [View Experiment]
- Big Brain, Little Smarts: Brain Size and Intelligence [View Experiment]
- The murderous Dutch fiddler: Criminology, history and the problem of
phrenolog [View Experiment]
- Physiognomy and Phrenology in Hawthorne [View Experiment]
- MRI machine is juxtaposed with a model of the human head with phrenology markings: an outmoded attempt to assign personality traits based on the skull’s shape [View Experiment]
- Thought Experiments [View Experiment]
- Neurology's Debt to F. J. Gall (1758-1828) [View Experiment]
Theses and Dissertations
- The Schädellehre, Phrenology, and Popular Science [View Thesis]
- Phrenology and the Insanity Defence: Medical Jurisprudence in the McNaughtan Trial [View Thesis]
- Johann Christoph Spurzheim and the rise and fall of scientific phrenology in Boston, 1832-1842 [View Thesis]
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