Phrenology: Experiments, Studies, Articles and Background Information

Phrenology Experiments, Studies, Articles, Theses and Dissertations For Science Fair Projects and Lesson Plans For High School and College Students and Teachers

Phrenology Experiments and Studies

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]
First Impressions: Phrenology and Physiognomy in David Copperfield [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]

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