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Phrenology or Craniology is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. It is based on the concept that ...

Performing Phrenology: The Theatrical Roots of a 19th-Century Science is an exciting interdisciplinary project that brings together two seemingly unlike fields: ...

2024/3/14 -Phrenology, the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, especially according to ...

a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the ...

2023/12/11 -Phrenology was a pseudoscience that linked the bumps on a person's head to certain aspects of their personality and character.

By 1843, the entire Western scientific community rejected organology and phrenology. All forms of cerebral localization were lumped with phrenology and ...

Phrenology is based on the (correct) idea of the Austrian doctor Franz Joseph Gall that different areas of the brain control different human behaviors. The ...

2021/2/2 -This Curiosities of Medical History feature looks at phrenology, the pseudoscience that said that the shape of the skull held clues about a ...

Phrenology appeared on the American scene in 1832 when Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832) arrived in New York to begin a speaking tour.