Temperaments&Elements&Birthsigns

Introduction to Temperaments  

 Part 1

I luurv psychology. I love learning about people, personalities and how the brain works. Yes you may call my JustyourteenageNERD if you want.

Anywho, I have loved this subject for only a gazillion years.

“Temperament is a configuration of observable personality traits, such as habits of communication, patterns of action, and sets of characteristic attitudes, values, and talents. It also encompasses personal needs, the kinds of contributions that individuals make in the workplace, and the roles they play in society. Dr. David Keirsey has identified mankind's four basic temperaments as the Artisan, the Guardian, the Rational, and the Idealist.

Each temperament has its own unique qualities and shortcomings, strengths and challenges. What accounts for these differences? To use the idea of Temperament most effectively, it is important to understand that the four temperaments are not simply arbitrary collections of characteristics, but spring from an interaction of the two basic dimensions of human behavior: our communication and our action, our words and our deeds, or, simply, what we say and what we do.”- http://www.keirsey.com/4temps/overview_temperaments.asp

If you are too lazy to read the official explanation of Temperaments (cough cough…me) I’ll explain. Okay so basically there are four different types of temperament:

©      Phlegmatic. (Relaxed and quiet).

©      Sanguine (pleasure-seeking and sociable)

©      Melancholic (intelligent and thoughtful)

©      Choleric (ambitious and power seeking)

If you are a Harry Potter fan or are familiar with it (Honestly…who isn’t?) Then these may sound similar to you.

…Get my drift yet...

No clue?

Well J.K.Rowling actually based the houses off the Temperaments.

©      Phlegmatic being Hufflepuff.

©      Sanguine being Gryffindor

©      Melancholic being Ravenclaw

©      Choleric being  Slytherin

Don’t tell me that isn’t cool! Well anywho. The science behind these types. Okay so basically there was this dude who was a Greek whose name was Hippocrates. He believed that certain moods, emotions and behaviors were caused by body fluids call humors. Yep. Yuck right? Well the four fluids were

©      Blood – Red

©      Yellow Bile - Yellow

©      Black Bile - Blue

©      Phlegm - Green

If you’ve been doing your homework or are just a HP fan you see where I am going with the colours.

So yeah, put them together and voila

©      Phlegmatic : Hufflepuff – Yellow Bile (Yellow)

©      Sanguine : Gryffindor - blood (Red)

©      Melancholic : Ravenclaw – Black bile (Blue)

©      Choleric : Slytherin – Phlegm (Green)

Back to Science lesson 101. Kay, so now we have established that these types of humors influence human personalities. Next there was this other guy, Galen (AD 131–200). From his theories of mixing the different types of temperaments came these four types of humors, which he named "sanguine", "choleric", "melancholic" and "phlegmatic" You haven’t that before right ;)

The modern names to this subject are: Artisan (SP), Guardian (SJ), Idealist (NF), and Rational (NT). Rather than using extroversion and introversion (E/I) and task/people focus, like other theories, KTS mapped the temperaments to "Sensing" and "Intuition" (S/N, renamed "concrete" and "abstract") – Thanks Wikipedia

Okay now that I have finished blabbing for an hour. This is the cool part. YEEAH IT GETS COOLER ;)

There are four types as we have established and within each type there is another four types. Don’t worry this is it now ;) Sort of…

Looks like a periodic table right, although less scary and less numbers and whatnot. Okay, maybe it doesn’t look like it but as you can see there is lots of different letters such as

ISTJ or ENTP.

These letters do mean something! Okay so the first category is

TECHNICAL TERMS	MEANING		TECHNICAL TERMS	MEANING
(E) Extroversion	Expressive	vs.	(I) Introversion	Attentive
(S) Sensing	Observant	vs.	(N) Intuiting	Introspective
(T) Thinking	Tough-Minded	vs.	(F) Feeling	Friendly
(J) Judging	Scheduled	vs.	(P) Perceiving	Probing

Okay so first you need to take the test to find out what you are!

http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/instruments2.aspx

The test! It may take long but it’ll be worth because

a)      If you are HP fan this is what house you’d truly be in!

b)      It’ll tell you things you didn’t think about yourself!

c)      It’s so accurate it’s scary!

You’ll see if you’re a:

ARTISAN	GUARDIAN	RATIONAL	IDEALIST
Promoter (ESTP)	Supervisor (ESTJ)	Fieldmarshal (ENTJ)	Teacher (ENFJ)
Crafter (ISTP)	Inspector (ISTJ)	Mastermind (INTJ)	Counselor (INFJ)
Performer (ESFP)	Provider (ESFJ)	Inventor (ENTP)	Champion (ENFP)
Composer (ISFP)	Protector (ISFJ)	Architect (INTP)	Healer (INFP)

And your true personality!

Byee for now!
Hugs and Kisses xoxox
-Justyourteenagebrit