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    Carlen: Image Quote

  • Emotion Processing Network

    Emotion Processing Network


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    Schematic diagram showing primary structures and connections within the emotion processing network.
    Reference:
    Grimshaw, G.M., 2018. Affective neuroscience: a primer with implications for forensic psychology. Psychology, Crime & Law, 24(3), pp.258–278.

  • Anthropometric Laboratory

    Anthropometric Laboratory


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    Galton’s first Anthropometric Laboratory situated in a corner of the International Health Exhibition in Kensington, London.

    1884–1885

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    In 1888, a reporter from the Pall Mall Gazette paid a visit to Galton’s Anthropometric Laboratory in London, where instruments developed by Galton measured the physical and mental characteristics — from keenness of hearing to breathing power — of over 10,000 people. The resulting article, titled “A Morning With the Anthropometric Detectives”, described Galton’s laboratory as a world of “order and precision, and tests of the nicest accuracy”. “Dumb though they are,” Galton told the reporter, “what splendid detectives our instruments might prove”.

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    Sir Francis Galton sets up his laboratory in London in 1884  and begins mental testing, much of which was conducted mainly under the principles of craniometry. Not only did he measure the participant’s skull but also assessed “performance on a range of simple physical tasks, such as tests of eyesight, strength of grip, colour vision, hearing, hand preference, and so on”

    (Byford, 2014).

     

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    The Life Letters and Labours of Francis Galton

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