Temperament types

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

What temperament are you? Our ladies' class is studying Spirit-Controlled Temperament by Tim LaHaye. This has been an interesting study.

Myers Briggs/ Four Temperaments

Update as of 11/8/11: It appears the link to the original personality test I took is no longer valid. A quick temperament test is found at writing.com if you scroll past the four temperament descri…

Originally introduced by the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks organized the four humors and adapted them for medical and psychological classification. The choices you make will determine if you are phlegmatic, choleric, sanguine, or melancholic according to this ancient Greek diagnostic technique?

The concept of four temperaments has been recognized for centuries. Which one do you identify most with? Or are you an even blend of two? Come find out!

Four Tempraments

Melancholic personality traits are associated with serotonin activity, that is why these men and women are calm and self-confident. Their happiness depends on family, friends and other social ties.

Understanding you and your child's temperaments can help with parenting. For example, melancholic children respond well to fairy tales describing hardships. The phlegmatic child likes comfort, to be kept warm, and delicious food. Sanguine children respond well to calm parenting but enjoy social situations. Choleric children like to be leaders and you may find letting them be in charge of tasks helps to give them direction.

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.

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The 4 Temperaments

These are focused, goal-oriented individuals; and although every personality type is represented by members of both genders, most choleric people are men.

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...

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

Sanguine Personality Infographic

Personality Type graphic

I had looked at the four temperaments with some resistance, and even a mild contempt. For as long as I can remember, I have had a sort of oppositional reaction to being cast into a Meyers-Brigg ca…