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Bookmark or Share- Phrenology - WikipediaPhrenology is a process that involves observing and/or feeling the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
- Phrenology | History, Theory, & Pseudoscience | BritannicaPhrenology, the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, especially according to the hypotheses of Franz Joseph Gall and 19th-century adherents Johann Kaspar Spurzheim and George Combe. Phrenology has since been discredited by scientific research.
- What Skulls Told Us - JSTOR DailyIn the United States phrenology was considered a tool for self-improvement. Celebrated American phrenologists included the Fowler Brothers, Walt Whitman, Lorenzo Niles and Orson Squire, the former of whom “phrenologized” young Clara Barton.
- What Is Phrenology in Psychology? - Verywell MindPhrenology was a pseudoscience that linked the bumps on a person's head to certain aspects of their personality and character. Phrenologists used phrenology heads or busts to perform "skull readings, " supposedly revealing information about a person's character and tendencies.
- How a Phrenology Head Was Traditionally Used - Verywell MindPhrenology was a pseudoscience that claimed bumps on a person's head were linked to specific aspects of their personality. Phrenologists used phrenology heads, also called busts, to do "skull readings." Supposedly, the readings could reveal information about a person's character.
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