What is Phrenology?

• Phrenology is the study of the shape of the human skull to reveal a person's character traits.
  
  

Do You Have Large Eyes?

• Franz Joseph Gall, the founder of phrenology, believed that if your eyes were very prominent, you had superior intelligence and a better-than-average memory.
  
  

Can I Feel Your Skull?

• Gall visited schools, prisons and asylums for the mentally unstable to gather data, which involved measuring skulls. Using this information, he created a list of twenty-seven characteristics that he could link to specific skull shapes.
  
  

Psychograph

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  A psychograph was a phrenology machine developed in the twentieth century. It had nearly two thousand parts that evaluated a subject sitting in a chair.
  
  

Phrenology in the Modern World

• Phrenologists contend that there is still a place for the study of character traits in the present day. They recommend using phrenology to further examine law enforcement officials and increase one's level of self-awareness.