Physiognomy: Can you tell a person's character and temperament base on their facial looks?

Question

Physiognomy: Can you tell a person's character and temperament base on their facial looks?

Answer 1

Yeah... the phenotypical genes that have been made apparent due to centuries of family social breeding is highly indicative of a person's character... bull sh*t.

Answer 2

Of course, language only communicates a low amount of informations (about 30 to 40%), the rest come from the body languages and some very good persons, can even translate micromuscular expressions into psychological cues and states. Of course to see those, you need to see the person who you are talking to inside a certain ranges of emotions, in order to extract reliable "feelings" of the person.

Normally within 5 minutes you can get a pretty good idea of a person persona.

It is also pretty funny when you tell the person all the things you have learn on her/him in just 5minutes conversation.

Also, by looking at two other persons talking, you can get a pretty good idea too...

Answer 3

Perhaps their character was skewed by their facial form. How would you receive someone looking sinister, or stupid, or weak and a host of other bad breaks in morphology?

Answer 4

body language is 55% of how we communicate! Of course you can read people.  Its more than a visual expression for us to discover though....The vibe we pick up on one another is a stronger sense of what we pick up subconsciously of the person's expression.  We are not telepathic, but it does not take a genius to figure out that people can be read through facial expressions that we know we have made before. Therefore, we can connect with them and recollect what they mean and interpret them.

Answer 5

Physiognomy is a theory without founded basis because you can find ugly person with excellent character and temperament and goo-looking person with bad character and temperament. That is why Physiognomy tends to be theory than science.

Answer 6

I guess you can tell if they smile or laugh or not by the laughter lines.  However they might smile they might smile and laugh while they stick the knife into you!!  So no you can't tell a lot about a person.

Answer 7

Yes, according to a book I read somewhere, there are several features to look for. For example, if the eyebrows are very close together, it may suggest that the person is very untrusting and unopen to others, while if the eyebrows are very far apart, the person is expected to be very gullible and trusting. In addition, if the pupils/iris is very high (near the brow) on the eyeball when the person is staring straight, you must be careful around this person, for they have "criminal, cruel eyes"- if you look carefully at the eyes of serial killers and Sadaam Hussein, their irises are all very near the top of their eyeball. These are just some examples of what I remember. I'm sure there are additional books you can find as well on this subject.

Answer 8

Nope.  Physical appearance has absolutely nothing to do with temperament or character.

Answer 9

i truly believe in the sayng" your face is the mirror of your soul"

Answer 10

people have been judging others by their appearances

for ...well since day dot,really!

Whether these assumptions are correct or not is

another thing

its just left down to the individual who reads another

persons facial character and body language

to say what they think just by using their judgement,

and gut feelings or something

it comes without any scientific backing

or proof of any kind to even justify the end results

Madam Helga

in the palm readers

wig wam at fetes and fairs

claiming to know which way

your liefs going to turn out in the future

   "Fortune teller"

carries about the same amount of credence

to its claims as what physiognomy has = 0

in my opinion

Answer 11

Facial expressions in the simplest forms are mainly universal. Character is a little bit more tricky since it is best judged by the person's actions, but can sometimes be seen if the facial expressions are heavy.

Answer 12

No.  You CAN get some idea of it based on their facial expressions.

Answer 13

Physiognomy is a pseudo-science, with the word science used very loosely.

Answer 14

This is in my field of expertise. There is not an absolute correspondence

between facial features and character traits, but there is a correlation.

That is a correlation between the genes of facial traits, as well as bodily

traits, and the genes of fundamental character.

A particular environment naturally selects for a particular corresponding

fundamental character. Such fundamental character consists of fundamental

intent, and that fundamental intent has abstract spatial traits. The most

fundamental of such abstract spatial traits are crudeness and fineness, but

there are more detailed spatial traits as well. The fundamental intent of a

person determines a person's aesthetic preferences, such that people with

a specific fundamental intent copulate with people of specific corresponding

aesthetic traits, thus mixing the genes of character with the genes of physical

characteristics. People whose fundamental intent matches their physical

aesthetic traits are much more attractive to mates of the same type than are

people with traits that do not match, such that sexual selection creates a

correlation between the genes of fundamental intent and the genes of physical

aesthetic traits.

Answer 15

i think you can to a certain degree, i was given a link to this site where you see ten men and you had to decide based on how their faces looked like which ones were murderers or paedophiles, i got 4 out of 10 the ones who looked like weirdo's were the normal ones lol, i tried to find the link but i couldn't sorry.