Four temperaments

The Four Temperaments Sanguine: Leadership, Lively, Easygoing, Responsive, Talkative, Outgoing, Sociable. Phlegmatic: Clam, Even-tempered

Use the four temperaments model to better understand and support your child's behaviour.

The Four Temperaments

The four basic temperaments or "humors" were developed by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates as a medical theory to describe aspects of a personality. A personality, as a whole, is too unique and complex to fit into a four quadrant box. A temperament is a piece of the personality; it is the fundamental, innate nexus of an individual.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a popular self-report personality assessment that divides people into four temperaments. Learn more about it here.

Hippocrates' four temperaments {Choleric-Melancholy}

Your temperament influences everything you do, from your sleeping habits, to your eating habits and even how you relate with people. Therefore understanding your temperament and knowing why you act the way you do can be enormously helpful in your daily life.

Until I was in my mid-twenties, I thought that every woman who wasn’t occasionally a quivering mass of emotions was repressing her feelings. I tend to cry frequently and freak out even more often. So I would sit down with my poor sister every few months and try to push all her buttons until she … Continue reading "How the Temperaments Are Making Me Holier"

I like to refer to the Melancholic as the iceberg temperament--little is happening on the surface, but there’s a whole other world just beneath the surface that, as I’ve come to conclude over time, some people are able to understand and some just aren’t.

Another four temperaments table, using Wikipedia smilies. In five temperament theory, Phlegmatic face is really Supine, and Phlegmatic should be a plain face. Supine would be "strong-willed" only in the sense of enforcing someone else's decisions, and is only "unemotional" in the sense of hiding them.

As we saw in the last post and the post on the Middle Ages' perspective , Humorism and the traditional view of the temperaments had beco...

This four temperaments personality test assesses your behavior and thinking to determine whether you’re sanguine, choleric melancholic or phlegmatic.

The qualities, strengths, and weaknesses of the four temperaments explored, with highlights on the Ultimate Temperament.

There are several temperament types to learn about. Find information on the 4 primary temperament types here.

There are many personality profiling exercise and study today. The following four temperaments originated with Hippocrates 2400 BC is just one of them. It’s now made into a compilation of Personality Plus temperaments by Florence Littauer though initially was catered for marriages is now being used by many HR and Management Consultants.

The Four Temperaments

The theory of the four humours (temperaments) is likely the oldest personality theory in the world. It can be traced back to the 4th century BC Greek physician Hippocrates.In the 2nd century AD, another Greek physician, named Galen, took this idea and made it into a personality theory.