ISBN:
9783030394196
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
133.82
Keywords:
Psychology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Mind Reading as Contest Zone -- Part I Technology and Mind Reading: Perspectives on Media and Occult Practices -- 2 Electrical Potential: Mind Reading as Collaborative Action -- Harvesting Human Signals -- Mental Mapping for Commerce: Multimer -- Selling a "Brainwave Symphony" -- Concluding Thoughts -- 3 The Omega Factor: The Revival of Telepathy in the 1970s -- Psychotronic Technologies -- The New Age: Magic or Terror? -- Periodizing Peak Psi -- 4 Visualizing Thoughts: Photography, Neurology and Neuroimaging -- 5 How Stage Magic Perpetuates Magical Beliefs -- Studying the Success of Deception: Mind-Over-Mind Routines -- Conclusions on the Success of Deception: Commonalities from Mind-Over-Mind Routines -- General Conclusion -- Part II Reading and Interpreting the Criminal Mind: Practices of Policing and Political Control -- 6 The Idea of Reading Someone's Thoughts in Contemporary Lie Detection Techniques -- Introduction -- On Understanding the Lie and Its Detection -- Who May Read Mind and Soul? Polygraphs in German Courtrooms -- Mind Reading as Science? Lie Detection in the Neuropsychological Laboratory -- Conclusion -- 7 Reading the Criminal in the Austrian School of Criminology: Unveiling the Deviant Character Through Measurement and Intuitive Introspection -- Between Exact Science and Everyday Psychology-Hans Gross -- Intuitive Introspection-Adolf Lenz -- Instrumental Lie Detection and Registration of Expression-Ernst Seelig -- Epistemological Conclusions -- 8 Reading Children's Minds: Female Criminal Police and the Psychology of Testimony, ca. 1920-1944, the Cases of Maria Zillig and Berta Rathsam -- Female Criminal Police -- Psychology -- Zillig's Experiments on Children's Lies -- The Case of Berta Rathsam -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations.
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