This article is about the branch of personality studies in German psychology. Not to be confused with Physiognomy, which is sometimes referred to in similar terms.
The name dates from 1867, having been introduced by the German philosopher Julius Bahnsen, though the discipline itself dates back to classical antiquity.[4] In German psychology, the term character was often used in place of personality. As such, characterology was the study of personality, its development, and its differences between individuals. The term personality however, which was dominant in English use, came to be preferred after the end of World War II.[1]
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Popov, Iu. N.; Puzyrei, A. A. (1970–1979). "Characterology". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). Retrieved 28 September 2020 – via TheFreeDictionary.com.
"Typologies". International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Retrieved 28 September 2020 – via Encyclopedia.com. A related historical tradition also going back to classical antiquity is the field of characterology and personality studies.
^ abcdePopov, Iu. N.; Puzyrei, A. A. (1970–1979). "Characterology". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). Retrieved 28 September 2020 – via TheFreeDictionary.com.
^Stone, Michael H. (1980). "Traditional Psychoanalytic Characterology Reexamined in the Light of Constitutional and Cognitive Difference Between the Sexes". Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 8 (3): 381–401. doi:10.1521/jaap.1.1980.8.3.381. PMID7410148.