The classical theory of the humors
The Four Temperaments
A portrait of your character drawn from the four elements — air, fire, earth and water — and the qualities the ancients ascribed to the soul.
In each row, choose the word that fits you most — even if more than one fits. It's the comparison that reveals your temperament, not how much you agree with each statement.
20 choices · about 3 minutes · one word per row
Recommended reading
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- View on Amazon →Please Understand Me IIDavid Keirsey
A modern reading of the four temperaments underlying Keirsey's typology.
- View on Amazon →The Temperament God Gave YouArt & Laraine Bennett
- View on Amazon →Os Quatro TemperamentosConrad Hock
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Also known as: temperament test · four temperaments · sanguine choleric melancholic phlegmatic