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Characterology logo #21000 Characterology (from Greek χαρακτήρ `character` and -λογία, -logia) is a method of character reading that attempted to combine revised physiognomy, reconstructed phrenology and amplified pathognomy, with ethnology, sociology and anthropology. Developed by L. Hamilton McCormick in the 1920s, characterology was an attempt to produce a.....
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characterology

characterology logo #22641study of development of character
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Characterology

Characterology logo #21203This name originally was used for types; thus in Aristotle and Theophrastus, and even much later, e.g. in La Bruyere. Gradually it came to signify something individual; a development paralleled by the replacement of 'typical' figures on the stage by individualities. There is no agreement, even today, on the definition; confusion reigns especially ....
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