the four temperaments

Unraveling human behavior by Rubens Salles The theory of temperaments – melancholic, choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic – that represent “spices” of human behavior, dates back to Empedocles, in ancient Greece, who related them to the four natural elements – earth, fire, air. , Water. Hippocrates called them the four humors. Later they were also studied by Kant, Wilhelm Wundt,…