How To Analyze People On Sight: Through The — Sci...

Elsie Lincoln and Ralph Paine Benedict’s 1921 work, How to Analyze People on Sight , introduces "Human Analysis," a method classifying personalities into five types based on physical traits. While proposing practical applications for vocation and social interaction, modern critics generally regard the text as pseudoscience and a product of early 20th-century pop psychology. The full text is available via Project Gutenberg .