Determine your personality-temparament

human personality traits / human temperament types :

Through a meticulous examination of the carefully posed (front view, side view, and back view) photographs of some four thousand, decently but scantily clothed, college-age, men Sheldon became persuaded that there were three fundamental elements that, in various proportions, contributed to each person's actual physique or somatype.

He conjectured that there might well be some relationship between these elements and the three layers of the human embryo - the endoderm, the mesoderm and the ectoderm - and consequently gave the three elements that he held as contributing to ALL human physiques the names Endomorphy, Mesomorphy and Ectomorphy.

He devised ways of standardising the measurement and numerical expression of the various degrees to which each of the three element was present in any individual person's physique.

He came to see:-

Endomorphy

as being focussed on the digestive system, particularly the stomach.

Mesomorphy

as being focussed on musculature and the circulatory system.

Ectomorphy

as being focussed on the nervous system and the brain.

On this basis He came to recognise that individual human beings would all possess stomachs, muscles, and nervous systems, but would also differ, more or less, in the inherent focus of their bodies towards their stomachs, their muscles, or their nervous systems.

He accepted that, in any population, there would be a few extreme Endomorphs, a few extreme Mesomorphs, and a few extreme Ectomorphs.

He saw extreme Endomorphic physiques as being rounded and tending towards fleshiness. He discovered that extreme Endomorphic body types are endowed with a far longer digestive tract than extreme Ectomorphic body types.

He saw extreme Mesomorphic physiques as being large, bony, and tending towards a substantial and well-defined musculature.

He saw extreme Ectomorphic body types as being light-boned and tending towards a slightness of musculature.

He also conducted a large number of surveys directed towards the investigation of whether there was any identifiable link between physique and temperament type. Sheldon's surveys led him consider that there were three basic temperament types or human personality traits that he labelled Viscerotonia, Somatotonia, and Cerebrotonia.

He saw extreme Viscerotonia as being associated with a love of relaxation and of comfort. Extreme Viscerotonics tend to be sociable "food and people" persons.

He saw extreme Somatonia as being associated with physical assertiveness. Extreme Somatotonics tend to be very keen on physical activity. Extreme Somatotonics also tend to be keen on competition in which they tend to expect to do well.

He saw extreme Cerebrotonia as being associated with a pronounced need for privacy. Extreme Cerebrotonics tend to be highly self-aware and socially restrained.

He considered that there was a strong correlation between body type and temperament type. According to this view human personality traits are underwritten, as it were, by human physical types. Extreme Endomorphs tend towards Viscerotonia, extreme Mesomorphs towards Somatotonia, and extreme Ectomorphs towards Cerebrotonia.

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/sheldon.html

And here you can take a test to determine your type :

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/sheldontest.html

Fred Nerk wrote:Buckers, if you take the test and the results show you to be anything else besides barking-at-aeroplanes rabid stark raving kangaroos-in-the-top-paddock certifiably mad, the test is plainly a load of hogwash.

Fred Nerk wrote:Buckers, if you take the test and the results show you to be anything else besides barking-at-helicopters

eowyn wrote:Viscerotonia = 17
Somatotonia = 11
Cerebrotonia = 20


Does this mean I'm food and people person who is self aware and private but doesn't like running in marathons?

eowyn wrote:You speak the truth, Gandalf the White.