The pseudoscience, which involves drawing conclusions about a person from the shape of their head, was contested from its outset and widely discredited within decades. It also has deeply racist ...

It's hard to imagine now, but people once believed that the bumps on your head could reveal your personality. For one thing, it's so hard to locate the bumps on your head, let alone the thirty or so ...

Some thinkers and physicians of the 18th and 19th centuries believed that the shape of a person’s skull could hold clues as to their psychology. In this Curiosities of Medical History feature, we take ...

‘Phrenology’ has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting and velocipedes. We’d like to think that judging people’s worth based on ...

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In the early 19th century, some scientists became convinced that they could predict someone's personality and behaviour based simply on the shape of their head. Known as phrenology, this ...

The year was 1999 and artists were hard at work fulfilling grand dreams, releasing accomplished projects with an eye toward the new millennium. A bumper crop of genre-redefining films brought forth ...