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3 unusual facts about Temperament


Temperament

In addition to the initial clinical studies, academic psychologists have developed an interest in the field and researchers such as Bates, Buss & Plomin, Kagan, and Rothbart have generated large bodies of research in the areas of personality, neuroscience, and behavioral genetics.

Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have concentrated empirical research on a temperamental category termed "reactivity."

Think the Unthinkable

She would probably be the closest the team has to a normal person were it not for her violent temper and extreme mood swings, and often acts as the voice of reason in the group, although her suggestions are usually ignored or overruled, triggering another aggressive phase.


22 equal temperament

Contemporary advocates of 22 equal temperament include music theorist Paul Erlich.

31 equal temperament

In 1666, Lemme Rossi first proposed an equal temperament of this order.

Aleksandr Mostovoi

Known as El Zar from his lengthy spell at Spain's Celta de Vigo, he was often referred to as a 'genius playmaker' during his time there, in addition to a volatile temperament.

Boris Christoff

Owing to his stage presence and dramatic temperament, he was a worthy heir to the grand tradition of Slavonic basses exemplified by Fyodor Stravinsky, Lev Sibiriakov, Vladimir Kastorsky, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Kipnis and Mark Reizen, among others.

Chua Ek Kay

Chua continued to practise Han calligraphy and ink-brush painting, as he believed that while a contemporary painting had to keep up with the times and embody an artist's temperament and the ideals he stands for, in creating art he should be rooted to certain basic rules and formats.

Cultural depictions of Stonehenge

In the novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy, the main character, Tess, is captured by the police at Stonehenge, the 'heathen' nature of the setting being used to highlight the character's temperament.

Daisuke Jigen

The Tokyo Pop releases of the original Lupin manga note in their preface that Jigen's appearance and temperament are based on the actor James Coburn, especially Coburn's role in The Magnificent Seven.

Hail fellow well met

The twentieth-century English novelist W. Somerset Maugham frequently used the term in his novels and short stories to describe male characters of a genial, sociable, and hard-drinking temperament (Of Human Bondage, The Trembling of a Leaf, Then and Now).

Italian modern and contemporary art

It lacked a precise artistic programme and included artists of different styles and temperament, for example, Carrà and Marini.

James Vincent Murphy

(transl.) Erwin Schrödinger, Science and the human temperament, 1935, Allen & Unwin, (biographical introduction by James Murphy, foreword by Ernest Rutherford)

Lauren Shera

The album’s lush sounds and beautiful temperament are complimented with guest performances by Abigail Washburn and Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses).

Maitighar Mandala

Various colors on the Mandala (blue background; black, orange, and blue circles) symbolise man's characteristics, too much of one would result in an imbalanced temperament.

Mermaid Tavern

based on a note by John Aubrey, but Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower of London from 19 July of that year until 1616, and it is hardly likely that someone of Raleigh's status and temperament would preside over tavern meetings.

Michigan State University Twin Registry

The primary purpose of the study was to investigate genetic, environmental (e.g., teasing by peers, parent-adolescent relationships), and neurobiological (i.e., gonadal hormones) risk factors for disordered eating, antisocial behavior, mood, attention/hyperactivity problems, and temperament during early adolescence.

Orwell comma

It is so named because the temperament eliminating this comma, Orwell temperament, has an optimal generator very close to 19 steps out of 84-equal temperament; this pattern of 19/84 steps is similar to the title of Orwell's novel 1984.

Please Understand Me

Based upon the notion that peoples' values differ fundamentally from one another, Keirsey drew upon the views of several psychologists or psychiatrists: Ernst Kretschmer Erich Adickes, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung and Isabel Myers who are all mentioned as predecessors in the psychology of temperament or personality.

Strähle construction

Stråhle published his construction as a "new invention, to determine the Temperament in tuning, for the pitches of the clavichord and similar instruments" in an article that appeared in the fourth volume of the proceedings of the newly formed Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which included articles by prominent scholars and Academy members Polhem, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Fredrik Mennander, Augustin Ehrensvärd, and Samuel Klingenstierna.

Texas cichlid

Its temperament differs from one individual to another, but in general can be kept with other large aquarium fishes such as tinfoil barbs, silver dollars, oscars, and other Central and South American cichlids.

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Mark Lindley, a researcher of historical temperaments, has written several surveys of temperament styles in the German Baroque tradition.

Théodore Géricault

Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by Carle Vernet and classical figure composition by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament yet recognized his talent.

Two-factor models of personality

Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) was one of the first psychologists to analyze personality differences using a psycho-statistical method (factor analysis), and his research led him to believe that temperament is biologically based.

William Henry Brookfield

He had the melancholy temperament often associated with humour, and suffered from ill-health, which in 1851 necessitated a voyage to Madeira.

Winifred Byrd

James Huneker, reviewing a Byrd recital for The New York Times on November 4, 1918, wrote, "She blazes with temperament. She has the energy of a demon."


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