Phrenology - Understanding human behaviour

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Medical reports have shown that genetic researchers have showed particular interest towards the field phrenology in order to better understand aggressive behaviour and mental abnormalities detected in patients as well as in criminals. Sociologists and psychologists have mentioned that phrenology can indeed help to better understand an individual s psychological makeup on the basis of the shape of their skull. Ahead of all, phrenology is a popular 19th century pseudoscience which is linked to certain head shapes, shapes of brow, the chin shape, with personality traits. From Britain phrenology spread to America and France in the 1830s and in the1840s. According to phrenologists, by examining the shape and unevenness of a head or skull, it is possible to define the cerebral organs which are responsible for different intellectual aptitudes and character traits...

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• Assisted by: Edward R. Miller-Jones (Editor), Edwar R Miller-Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: FastBook Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9786130145972
• ISBN: 978-613-0-14597-2
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology