Title Galen's Prophecy : Temperament in Human Nature

Published Boulder : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (401 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 The Idea of Temperament: The Past; The Ancient View in the West; Premodern Conceptions; The Primacy of Experience; Temperament and Politics; Freud's Influence; The Return of Ideas of Temperament; The Contribution of Psychology; Thomas and Chess; The Rise of Neuroscience; An Initial Definition; 2 What Is Temperament?; The Referents for Temperament; Views of Temperament; Temperament in Infants; What Is a Temperamental Category?; The Biological Origins of Temperament; The Measurement of Temperament Continua versus CategoriesPerspectives in Describing People; A Caveat; 3 The Family of Fears; The Meanings of Fear States; Freud's Influence; The Neuroscientist's Conception; Origins of Fear States; One Fear State or Many?; Reactions to the Unfomiliar; Individual Variation; Anxiety; 4 The Beginnings; The First Clues; History of a Word; Strategies of Inquiry; The Advantages of Analysis; The First Study; Preservation of Temperament; The Adolescent Profile; Other Qualities of Inhibited Children; 5 The Physiology of Inhibited and Uninhibited Children; Sympathetic Activity Other Physiological FeaturesAggregation of Physiological Measures; Cerebral Asymmetry; Two Case Histories; Other Features of the Two Temperamental Types; Heritability; 6 Early Predictors of the Two Types; The Infont Assessments; Fear in the Second Year; The Stability and Predictability of Fear; Two Types of Fears; Prediction to Three and One-half Years: Cohort 1; Case Illustrations; Sex Differences; Effects of Birth Order; Affect at Four Months; Later Affect Display: Cohort 2; The Role of the Home; 7 Infant Reactivity and Sympathetic Physiology; Heart Rate Measures: Cohort 1 Heart Rate Measures: Cohort 2Asymmetry of Facial Temperature; A Synthesis; 8 Implications; Temperament and Conscience; Temperament and Psychopathology; Personality and Temperament; Ethnicity and Temperament; 9 Reflections; What Names Should We Use?; What Changes with Development?; Categories and Continua Revisited; Are There Other Temperamental Categories?; Internal Tone; How Much Control Do We Have?; Notes; Index Summary Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favor. Based on fifteen years of research, Galen's Prophecy now provides fresh insights into these complex questions, offering startling new evidence to support Galen's ancient classification of melancholic and sanguine adults. Integrating evidence and ideas from biology, philosophy, and psychology, Jerome Kagan examines the implications of the idea of temperament for aggressive behavior, conscience, psychopathology, and the degree to which each of us can be expected to control our deepest emotions Notes Print version record Subject Temperament in children -- Physiological aspects Inhibition in children -- Physiological aspects Children and the environment. Nature and nurture. Temperament. Children. Infants. Inhibition. Social ecology. Temperament Temperament -- physiology Child Infant Inhibition, Psychological Social Environment children (people by age group) infants. human ecology. Temperament Social ecology Inhibition Infants Children Children and the environment Inhibition in children -- Physiological aspects Nature and nurture Temperament in children -- Physiological aspects Kind Temperament Temperament. Kinderen. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429979910 0429979916 0429500289 9780429500282

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