Boo! culture, experience, and the startle reflex - Simons, Ronald C. (Oxford University Press, 1996)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
1. Introduction -- 2. Startle as a Personal Experience and as a Social Resource -- 3. Making People Jumpy: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Create a Hyperstartler -- 4. Variations on a Theme: Being Startled Makes One Ill -- 5. The Startle Museum I: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Their Expository Uses -- 6. The Startle Museum II: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Properties of Startle Events -- 7. Attention Capture and the Startle-Matching Syndromes -- 8. Latah: The Paradigmatic Startle-Matching Syndrome -- 9. Explaining Latah: The Importance of Descriptive Detail -- 10. The Startle-Matching Syndrome in Other Cultures -- 11. Culture, Biology, and Individual Experience -- App. List of Topics Discussed with Latahs -- App. List of Topics Discussed with Malaysian non-Latah Informants -- App. Latah Stories Reporting Form -- App. Script of the Film Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex