The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience

Physiognomy reconsidered

Martin S. Lindauer | The College at Brockport, State University of New York

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A face strikes us immediately as sad, and so, too, do a mourner, a willow tree, a house on a prairie, and a group of onlookers. The spontaneous emergence of affective and other qualities of people, things, places, and events falls under the heading of physiognomy, a phenomenon discussed since at least Aristotle, and a key feature of evolutionary theory, psychology, and perception as well as professional practice (“profiling”) and popular talk. However, physiognomy is a controversial topic because of a suspect history, and is often renamed as non-verbal communication.

The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy Reconsidered examines this venerable, attractive, and contentious topic within the unique perspective of research-oriented psychology. Included are the processes involved, primarily perceptual; origins, mainly evolutionary; and social-cultural factors as supplements. Discussed within a holistic-experiential (phenomenological)-aesthetic framework are physiognomy’s ties to the arts as well as emotions, synesthesia, learning, development, and personality. Empirical investigations are summarized, including the author’s.

[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 8] 2013. xi, 174 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 October 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/ceb.8

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. ix–xi

Ch. 1. An Overview | pp. 1–6

Part I. Background

Ch. 2. Physiognomy described | pp. 7–22

Ch. 3. Historical background and methods of study | pp. 23–44

Part II. Physiognomy and the arts

Ch. 4. Physiognomy in Paintings, Literature, and the Other Arts | pp. 45–62

Ch. 5. The Arts, Physiognomy, Perception, and Gestalt Psychology | pp. 63–82

Part III. The Perceptual Framework for Physiognomy

Ch. 6. Physiognomy as an Emergent Phenomenon | pp. 83–100

Ch. 7. The Physiognomy of Person Perception | pp. 101–120

Part IV. Answers and Questions

Ch 8. Theories of Physiognomy | pp. 121–138

Ch. 9. Summing Up, Remaining Issues, and Future Directions | pp. 139–154

Index | p. 171

Cited by (4)

Cited by four other publications

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Verstegen, Ian

2022. The Politics of Physiognomic Perception. Gestalt Theory 44:1-2 ► pp. 183 ff.

Kronshage, Eike

2021. Physiognomic Flânerie in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent. In Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture [Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, ], ► pp. 155 ff.

Auracher, Jan

2019. Commentary on Tsur and Gafni. Scientific Study of Literature 9:2 ► pp. 230 ff.

Hoshi, Hideyuki, Nahyun Kwon, Kimi Akita & Jan Auracher

2019. Semantic Associations Dominate Over Perceptual Associations in Vowel–Size Iconicity. i-Perception 10:4

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Subjects

Consciousness Research

Consciousness research

Psychology

Cognitive psychology

Main BIC Subject

JMRP: Perception

Main BISAC Subject

PSY013000: PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions

ONIX Metadata

ONIX 2.1

ONIX 3.0

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