The study of a person's traits by deciphering the shape of the person's skull (phrenos: mind, head, as in schizophrenia; logy: the study of). It's a pseudoscience and has no scientific basis.
Silas Jones has written: 'Practical phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Practical phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology
George Combe has written: 'The Phrenologist's own book' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'On the functions of the cerebellum' -- subject(s): Cerebellum, Physiology, Phrenology 'Notes on the United States of North America' -- subject(s): Civilization, Description and travel, Phrenology 'Moral philosophy' -- subject(s): Ethics 'A system of phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Lectures on phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Constitution of man' -- subject(s): Phrenology, Man, Human beings, Psychology, Early works to 1850 'Moral Philosophy Or The Duties Of Man Considered In His Individual, Domestic And Social Capacities' 'Essays on phrenology' 'Lectures on popular education' -- subject(s): Accessible book 'Lectures on phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'What Should Secular Education Embrace?' 'Elements of phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Lectures on phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Lectures On Moral Philosophy' -- subject(s): Ethics 'Phrenological development of Robert Burns' -- subject(s): phrenology, head, skull, Phrenology 'On teaching physiology and its applications in common schools' -- subject(s): Study and teaching, Education, Physiology 'Essays on Phrenology: Or An Inquiry Into the Principles and Utility of the System of Drs. Gall ..' -- subject(s): Brain, Phrenology, Mental Disorders, Insanity 'A system of phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Elements of phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'The suppressed documents: or, an appeal to the public against the conductors of the Scottish Guardian' 'A system of phrenology ...' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects' -- subject(s): Human beings, Phrenology 'Notes On The United States Of North America V2' 'Elements of phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Lectures on phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology
O. S. Fowler has written: 'Human Science Or Phrenology V2' 'Self-culture, and perfection of character' -- subject(s): Character, Popular works, Phrenology 'Matrimony, as taught by phrenology and physiology' -- subject(s): Sexual ethics, Marriage, Phrenology 'Self-culture, and perfection of character including the management of youth' -- subject(s): Hygiene, Physiology, Phrenology 'Education and self-improvement, founded on physiology and phrenology' -- subject(s): Education, Phrenology 'The illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology' -- subject(s): Phrenology, Physiology 'Phrenology proved, illustrated, and applied' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Phrenological controversy' 'Creative and sexual science, or, Manhood, womanhood, and their mutual interrelations' -- subject(s): Sexual ethics, Marriage, Phrenology 'The self-instructor in phrenology and physiology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Human science' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Phrenology proved' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Matrimony, or, Phrenology and physiology applied to the selection of congenial companions for life' -- subject(s): Phrenology, Marriage, Mate selection 'Hereditary descent' -- subject(s): Genetics, Popular Works, Hereditary Diseases, Phrenology 'Human Science Or Phrenology V1 (Mental Efficiency)' 'Physiology' 'Self-Culture And Perfection Of Character Including The Management Of Youth' 'Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing' -- subject(s): Physiology, Phrenology 'Creative and sexual science' -- subject(s): Sexual ethics, Marriage, Phrenology 'Human science, or, Phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology 'Life, [prospectus], its factors and improvement' 'Fowler's practical phrenology' -- subject(s): Phrenology
Phrenology is study of the bumps on a person's head.
Why is phrenology considered a pseudoscience
the old pseudoscience was called phrenology
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Of or pertaining to phrenology.
Phrenology
Head shapes.
study of personality and character