Four Humors Temperament Test
Europe's original personality system, 2,400 years old: Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, or Phlegmatic? The classics knew what they were doing.
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Your dominant classical temperament, what ancient physicians would've called you, and why the system survived this long.
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- The Four Humors
- Ancient Greek medicine held that four bodily fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm) shaped temperament. The medical part was wrong; the personality observations were so good we kept them for 2,400 years.
- Temperament
- Your inborn emotional 'weather pattern': how you naturally react before habits and culture edit you. The oldest and most studied idea in personality psychology.
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