Phrenology is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. [1] [2] It is based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. [3]

2024年1月29日 · Phrenology, or craniology, is a now-discredited system for analyzing a person’s strengths and weaknesses based on the size and shape of regions on the skull. The Viennese physiologist Franz Joseph Gall invented phrenology in the late 18th century.

2023年11月17日 · Phrenology 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 …

2025年3月12日 · Phrenology, 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.

2014年1月6日 · How the archaic study of brain shape and head reading — the origin of terms like “highbrow” and “lowbrow,” “well rounded,” and “shrink” — shaped the modern obsession with the mind.

Phrenology, the nineteenth-century practice of interpreting mental qualities and potential based on the external appearance of the skull, is a science with a complex and rich history and historiography.

2023年12月11日 · Phrenology was a pseudoscience that proposed that the bumps on a person's head could be used to determine their traits and character. Briefly popular during the Victorian era, phrenology heads or busts were often used to "read" a person's personality.

2019年6月25日 · Phrenology is a pseudoscience that uses measurements of the human skull to determine personality traits, talents, and mental ability. This theory, developed by Franz Joseph Gall, became popular in the 19th century during the Victorian era, and its ideas would contribute to other emergent theories such as evolution and sociology .

2021年2月2日 · Some thinkers and physicians of the 18th and 19th centuries believed that the shape of a person’s skull could hold clues as to their psychology. In this Curiosities of Medical History feature, we...

2014年1月16日 · Originally known as cranioscopy, phrenology was a revolutionary pseudoscience that determined personality and the development of mental and moral faculties based on the external shape of the skull and its size.