Four Temperament and you

The Four-Temperament Ensemble is a set of humours that act as a backbone for ones personality.

• Sanguine: Outgoing, fun loving social butteflies; Exroverted, People-Orientated.
• Choleric: Dominant, fiery, driven people; Extroverted, Task-Orientated.
• Melancholic: Brooding perfectionists and very introverted, idealists but bitter; Introverted, Task-Orientated.
• Phlegmatic: Laid-back, stoic, calm people who avoid conflict; Introverted, People-Orientated.

You can read here for more info.

Although one must remember that these temperaments are not fixed personalities; many people are a mixture of two, or even three, different temperaments.

Which are you?

edited 24th Nov '14 9:29:50 AM by CrazyDawg

Definate blend of Melancholic and Phlegmatic.

Oooh, another personality test thread! What fun.

I'm Choleric/Sanguine, or Choleric/Melancholic.

EDIT: No, I'm going to have to settle for Choleric/Melancholic; what I thought were sanguine traits were actually just choleric ones, and certain parts of the Choleric/Melancholic description fit me perfectly. Choleric/Sanguine sounds too much like a Boisterous Bruiser: I have too much of a dark, intellectual side to qualify, and I do like to make plans more than carry them out.

edited 13th Nov '11 7:52:46 AM by tropetown

I'm Melancholic/Phlegmatic myself.

Definitely choleric.

Everything but Melancholic.

Really? I would expect quite a few people here to be some blend of Melancholic, as it seems to be the most intellectual of the temperaments.

Nope. I'm not liek the average troper.

Actually, I'll go with Chloreic/Sanguine, Chrloeric being dominant. Upon further inspection Phlegmatcic doesn't fit me.

edited 13th Nov '11 8:06:47 AM by Erock

We had that one already. I even think several times.

@tropetown

I remember there being a Geek Test thread a while back where, trippily enough, the tropers didn't turn out to be as heavily geeky as you might think.

Look down the list to see the blends; I thought I was Choleric/Sanguine, as well, but they're more boisterous, optimistic, and will have a softer feel to them because of the happy emotionality that the Sanguine temperament adds. Choleric/Melancholic, though, fit me a lot better, since, while the dominant Choleric temperament makes a person quite extroverted (which is why I thought I might have been Sanguine, at first), the Melancholic side adds a colder, more intellectual side to it. Plus, while they are an emotional type, the emotions are of a darker, more private sort than the Sanguine ones.

Basically, Choleric/Sanguine is warm, happy and exuberant, while Choleric/Melancholic is colder, more serious, and cynical. Both are proud, but Choleric/Sanguine is more likely to express it with bragging and more overt bravado, while Choleric/Melancholic is more likely to give off a haughty, arrogant air, without necessarily boasting to others.

The types of anger are different, too; Choleric/Sanguine types will tend to be easily roused, and explode when they get angry, due to the emotional passion that the Sanguine temperament adds to the already fiery Choleric one. Choleric/Melancholic types take longer to get angry, and have a sort of cold fury that gets directed by the intellectual bent from the Melancholic temperament into a calmer, more detached vengefulness.

Yeah, a good number of tropers don't strike me as being particularly geeky, but the ones who don't, do strike me as being at least somewhat intellectual.

edited 14th Nov '11 2:41:13 AM by tropetown

•Choleric: Dominant, fiery, driven people; Extroverted, Task-Orientated.

I would be Choleric because I tend to have a fiery attidude and really get stressed out when things don't go my way.

Melancholic, so very much. Extremely introverted and introspective, way too idealistic, but fairly bitter.

edited 13th Nov '11 10:13:16 AM by Beholderess

edited 24th Nov '14 9:30:08 AM by CrazyDawg

I'd never seen adequate explanations of the Primary/Secondary blends before. I like this page. I fit the Melancholic/Phlegmatic blend almost exactly. Fascinating.

Yeah, this site manages to try and define some of the grey areas of when temperaments cross over, rather than just defining the primary temperaments.

edited 24th Nov '14 9:30:22 AM by CrazyDawg

Melancholic.

Melancholic.

@tropetown: I am quite exuberent, actually.

Phlegmatic/Sanguine seems to fit best, especially the bits like "They are not known for their reliability, since due to being of two 'soft' temperaments, they are not deeply devoted to things, but more like casually interested until their attention runs out..."

Sanguine/Choleric.

Another similiarity between us, I see.

edited 13th Nov '11 6:14:02 PM by Erock

Very heavily Phlegmatic, myself. Maybe bits of Choleric sprinkled in there.

Those traits are closer to Phlegmatic types than Melancholic ones.

That fits me, as well (well, I display positive, happy emotions; it usually comes out of Choleric extroversion and Melancholic unwillingness to allow everyone to pry into my private emotional state, though); the big question to ask here is, why do act that way?

edited 13th Nov '11 10:24:10 PM by tropetown

edited 24th Nov '14 9:32:01 AM by CrazyDawg