Editing Forehead (section)

==Society and culture==
In [[physiognomy]] and [[phrenology]], the shape of the forehead was taken to symbolise intellect and intelligence.  "Animals, even the most intelligent of them,", wrote Samuel R. Wells in 1942, "can hardly be said to have any forehead at all, and in natural total idiots it is very diminished".<ref>{{cite book|title=New Physiognomy Or Signs of Character as Manifested Through Temperament and External Forms and Especially in the Human Face Divine|author=Samuel R. Wells|edition=reprint|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=1998|isbn=9780766103573|chapter=The Forehead|pages=260}}</ref>

[[Pseudo-Aristotle]], in ''[[Physiognomica]]'', stated that the forehead is governed by [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]].<ref name=Aristotle>{{cite book|title=The Works of Aristotle|author=Aristotle|editor=William Salmon|pages=71|location=New England|year=1828}}</ref>  A low and little forehead denoted magnanimity, boldness, and confidence; a fleshy and wrinkle-free forehead, litigiousness, vanity, deceit, and contentiousness; a sharp forehead, weakness and fickleness; a wrinkled forehead, great spirit and wit yet poor fortune; a round forehead, virtue and good understanding; a full large forehead, boldness, malice, boundary issues, and high spirit; and a long high forehead, honesty, weakness, simplicity, and poor fortune.<ref name=Aristotle />

In fighting, slamming one's forehead into one's opponent is termed a [[headbutt]].<ref name="AdamecMai2011">{{cite journal|last1=Adamec|first1=Jiri|last2=Mai|first2=Vera|last3=Graw|first3=Matthias|last4=Schneider|first4=Klaus|last5=Hempel|first5=John-Martin|last6=Schöpfer|first6=Jutta|title=Biomechanics and injury risk of a headbutt|journal=International Journal of Legal Medicine|volume=127|issue=1|year=2011|pages=103–110|issn=0937-9827|doi=10.1007/s00414-011-0617-y|pmid=21922302|s2cid=9117512}}</ref>