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Physiognomy associates any feature of the face and head with personal characteristics, and as a practice, it has a long history in Western and Eastern cultures. European physiognomists prospered from the Middle Ages until the critiques of empirical science blunted its unsubstantiated claims.
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Controversy typically surrounds issues related to physiognomy. One reason might be the history of pseudo-scientific and discredited fads, such as phrenology, that associated physical and psychological characteristics without adducing credible evidence, and the implausibility of much of their claims.
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Physiognomy is the interpretation of outward appearance, especially the features of the face, to discover a person's predominant temper ... Coclès, like others before and after him, tried to create a science out of something each of us does from time to time: judge a person by his or her facial characteristics.
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Digital Physiognomy. This software tool allows anyone to read a face. It uses a neural network to identify correlations between facial features and psychological characteristics. ... Predictive methods of fortune-telling include physiognomy (study of facial characteristics) and phrenology (study of contours on the skull).
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www.uniphiz.com/physiognomy.htm
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Digital Physiognomy presents a detailed character analysis of Saddam Hussein. ... Let's try to use physiognomy methods in practice to determine Saddam Hussein psychological characteristics. Software Digital Physiognomy allows us to compose a psychological description of any individual based on the frontal view of his face.
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Antiquity: practice of face-reading known as physiognomy; attempts to compare the physical characteristics of people with the intent to understand them psychologically...
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Reading Bumps and Faces; Phrenology and Physiognomy ... It was begun by Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828). Closely related is the occult science Physiognomy (Greek for nature and interpreter), an effort to understand the mind and personality by evaluating various facial traits as the nose, eyes, chin and cheekbone shape;
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Phrenology was a popular belief fostered during the 1800s that nearly all personality characteristics were shown by the brain's shaping of the skull (Mainwaring, 1980). This idea was expanded to facial characteristics, but physiognomy failed to show that particular traits were isolated in specific facial characteristics,
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Fortune-telling as a process of character analysis can take such forms as physiognomy (study of facial characteristics), graphology (study of handwriting), phrenology (study of contours on the skull), and palmistry (study of lines on the palm of the hand).
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