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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.
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INDEX
Abelson, Robert, 155
Activity, as temperamental type, 42–43
Adamec, Robert, 108, 188
Adler, Alfred, 83
Adolescence: anxiety in, 151–52; facial temperature in, 227, 349n227; fear reactions and, 109, 114; heart rates measures of, 147–48, 214; inhibited and uninhibited behavior in, 134–35; smiling and heart rate correlations in, 221
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH): fear reactions to unfamiliarity and, 103; variations in temperament and, 52
Affect, 198–202. See also Smiling
Age of child: affect display and, 198–203, 335n198; anxiety and, 109–10; fear reactions and, 100, 114, 124–25, 180–82, 332n179, 332n180; heart rate measures and, 209–10; inhibited and uninhibited behavior and, 130–31; at later ages, 199–203
Aggregation, 152–56
Agoraphobia, 29, 92
Agreeableness, as personality type, 43, 45, 253–54
Air (basic element), 2, 5
Allergy susceptibility, in inhibited and uninhibited children, 161
Allport, Gordon, 43, 57, 302n11
Amygdala: anxiety and, 98; criminal behavior and temperament variations and, 53–54; defensive-aggressive behavior and, 96–97, 188, 314n96; distress and, 198; distress and, 198; distress and, 198; inhibited and uninhibited children and excitability differences in, 140, 143, 148–49, 153–54, 171–72; reactions to unfamiliarity and, 102–4, 105, 124, 315n102; strain differences in behavior and, 25
Anatomy, and variations in temperament, 50–51
Ancient philosophies, 78; concepts of temperament in, 2–7, 14, 17, 20, 33–34; mental illness viewed in, 20–21
Androgens, and fearful behavior, 197
Anger: ancient view of, 78; mental illness and, 80; seasons linked with, 5
Angins (Malay humors), 6
Animal research: anatomy and variations in temperament in, 51; avoidant behavior in, 24–25, 28, 303n24; fear reactions in, 94, 104, 314n94; fear reactions in, 94, 104, 314n94; fear reactions in, 94, 104, 314n94; intelligence studies with, 141–42; neuroscientific approach to temperament in, 28–29; temperature changes and, 225
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- One The Idea of Temperament: The Past
- Two What Is Temperament?
- The Family of Fears
- Four The Beginnings
- Five The Physiology of Inhibited and Uninhibited Children
- Six Early Predictors of the Two Types
- Seven Infant Reactivity and Sympathetic Physiology
- Nine Reflections
- Notes
- Index