Boo! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex

Ronald C. Simons

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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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