temperament

is a disposition that applies exclusively to emotions.

According to Wundt (1887) temperament is a disposition that applies exclusively to emotions, and the four classic temperaments distinguished by Hippocrates and Galen are characterized by Wundt on the basis of two non-content related dimensions intensity and speed of changes in emotions.

is constitutionally based individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation, explicitly including motivation and emotion.

The psychobiological approach developed by Rothbart (1981, 1986... Rothbart, Ahadi, & Hershey, 1994) and others (e.g., Goldsmith, 1996) defines temperament as constitutionally based individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation, explicitly including motivation and emotion. Dimensions described by this approach vary, but include, for infants and children, soothability, smiling, shyness, frustration or distress in response to novelty, highland low-intensity pleasure, attention focusing and shifting, perceptual sensitivity, as well as activity level.

is, in children, inclusive of such things as soothability, smiling, shyness, frustration/distress in response to novelty, high-and low-intensity pleasure, attention focusing and shifting, perceptual sensitivity, activity level.

Dimensions described by this approach vary, but include, for infants and children, soothability, smiling, shyness, frustration or distress in response to novelty, highland low-intensity pleasure, attention focusing and shifting, perceptual sensitivity, as well as activity level.

is more important in the world than truth. It is what is individual and alive in a man and it subordinates reality.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud... but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more. Emile Zola

is more often responsible of faults than is the mind.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is the another word for the concept 'fate'.

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept. That was clear to me now.

is that which lies behind mood whereas the fate of character is what lies behind will. Behind both lies the influence of family the tyranny of culture... and finally the power of climate and environment. Freedom is achieved to the extent that one rises above these.

Temperament lies behind mood... behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture... and finally the power of climate and environment... and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. (John Burroughs)

Temperament is the thermometer of character. Honore de Balzac

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