In the mid-19th century, phrenology was reaching its peak popularity in the U.S. The idea that the shape of the human skull was linked to intelligence and personality traits had a significant ...

In “Empire of Skulls,” Paul Stob explores how a mania took over America. By Jennifer Wright Jennifer Wright is the author, most recently, of “Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen ...

A CHILD’S GUIDE TO FREUD by Louise Armstrong. Drawings by Whitney Darrow Jr. 60 pages. Simon & Schuster. $2.95. – Freudian expertise has long since reached down through the cocktail party into the ...

Resurging interest in theories of racial exceptionalism is turbocharged amid nuance-light world of social media Phrenology was long ago added to the junk heap of discredited theories. But in the 200 ...

Long before neuroscience, phrenology claimed to have the power to determine who was afflicted with badness and who was suffering from madness. In the second-last article in our series Biology and ...

It’s hard to imagine now, but people once believed that the bumps on your head could reveal your personality. For one thing, it’s so hard to locate the bumps on your head, let alone the thirty or so ...

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AI phrenology might be bad, say Ivy League economics professors in 61-page paper about how AI phrenology is accurate. Reading time 2 minutes Every few months, another highly educated academic asks: ...

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