Personality/Types

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Human societies have been "typing" people in terms of their physiology and psychology for thousands of years. Typing allocates a person to single, discrete categories and is to be distinguished from the trait approach.

Greek humours

The ancient Greeks considered there to be four types of personality which was determined by excesses of different types of bodily fluids.

Humor	Fluid	Character
Choleric	yellow bile	Irritable
Melancholic	black bile	Depressed
Sanguine	blood	Optimistic
Phlegmatic	phlegm	Calm

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Block's types

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Personality Types (Wilderdom)