Character type of trait?

The idea that people can be assigned to limited character types has a long
history:

Theoprastus (371-286 BC)
Described 6 (six) characters: Type Description the garrulous – outgoing, tlakative, vivacious the mean – selfish, misery the tactless – insensitive, clumsy the flatterer – using compliments to achive own ends the dissembler – deceitful, evasive the avaricious – grasping, covetous
Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
Used term “humour” meaning temperament. Defined 4 (four) basic types of people Type Characteristics Excess of (humor/body fluids) Choleric – easily aroused, easily angered Yellow bite Phlegmatic – cool, detached Phlegm Sanguine – impulsive, excitable, optimistic Blood Melancholic – depressive, pessimistic Blue bite Promoted by Galen (129-210 AD) Predominant model of personality until 16th century AD
Plato (427 – 347 BC)
Differences between people are more easily explained if they were seen as varying in “two dimensions” (or “traits”). Dimension vs Dimension anxiety vs calmness impusivity

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