2. Startle as a Personal Experience and as a Social Resource
3. Making People Jumpy: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Create a Hyperstartler
4. Variations on a Theme: Being Startled Makes One Ill
5. The Startle Museum I: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Their Expository Uses
6. The Startle Museum II: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Properties of Startle Events
7. Attention Capture and the Startle-Matching Syndromes
8. Latah: The Paradigmatic Startle-Matching Syndrome
9. Explaining Latah: The Importance of Descriptive Detail
10. The Startle-Matching Syndrome in Other Cultures
11. Culture, Biology, and Individual Experience
App. List of Topics Discussed with Latahs
App. List of Topics Discussed with Malaysian non-Latah Informants
App. Latah Stories Reporting Form
App. Script of the Film Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex.