Phrenology Phrenology is basically the study of personality through the study of the shape of the skull. The basis of this theory is that the brain conforms to the shape of the head and its contours. This pseudoscience says that because we have isolated where different parts of personality come from we can tell how dominant this trait would be in a person’s life by the size of the piece of the brain. We …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…think that phrenology has been one of the best mistakes made in psychology. If we can learn this much from a theory that is so wrong just imagine what we will learn when someone comes up with something that is actually right. **phrenologychart Resources Compton’s Encyclopedia World Book Encyclopedia The History of Phrenology 134.184.33.110/phreno/intro.html www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~btcarrol/skeptic/phren.html www.epub.org.br/cm/n01/frenolog/frenlink.htm