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Characterology (from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ 'character' and ‑λογία, ‑logia) is the academic study of character which was prominent in German-speaking countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] [2] It is considered a historic branch of personality psychology, which extended into psychoanalysis and sociology. [3]
Let G be a topological group, and for a topological space , write () for the set of isomorphism classes of principal G-bundles over .This is a contravariant functor from Top (the category of topological spaces and continuous functions) to Set (the category of sets and functions), sending a map : to the pullback operation : ().
A character structure is a system of secondary traits manifested in the specific ways that an individual relates and reacts to others, to various kinds of stimuli, and to the environment.
National character refers to a characteristic common personality of the people of a nation. [1] [2] National character has been studied within the fields of anthropology, sociology, and psychology. [3]
Physiognomy as a practice meets the contemporary definition of pseudoscience [1] [2] [3] and is regarded as such by academics because of its unsupported claims; popular belief in the practice of physiognomy is nonetheless still widespread and modern advances in artificial intelligence have sparked renewed interest in the field of study.
العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Bosanski; Чӑвашла
Certainly, European writers and thinkers in the 17th and 18th centuries (the era of the Enlightenment) were very preoccupied with human character and characterology, many different typologies being proposed; human character was increasingly being defined in a secular way, independent of virtues and vices defined by religion.
National character studies arose from a variety of approaches with Culture and Personality, including the configurationalist approach of Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, the basic personality structure developed by Ralph Linton and Abram Kardiner, and the modal personality approach of Cora DuBois.