Brain Shape & Personality

[nofuture]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1169249/How-shape-brain-shows-kind-personality-have.html



Scientists may one day be able to find out what a young child’s personality will be like by simply scanning their brain, new research has shown.

New research has found that the shape of your brain gives a clue to what type of person you are.

The differences in the shape of the brains of 85 people were scanned and measured.

They found that larger or smaller amounts of tissue in certain areas of the brains were linked to specific personality traits.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1169249/How-shape-brain-shows-kind-personality-have.html



Scientists may one day be able to find out what a young child’s personality will be like by simply scanning their brain, new research has shown.

New research has found that the shape of your brain gives a clue to what type of person you are.

The differences in the shape of the brains of 85 people were scanned and measured.

They found that larger or smaller amounts of tissue in certain areas of the brains were linked to specific personality traits.

Personality is greatly shaped by surroundings, and changes throughout time. So it's a gamble.

Of course...they could check it and believe it's their right to big brother the kids with a 'decent personality'...:rolleyes:

[zero1]

Those pesky boffins do love their eugenics. The thought of stuffy atom-gazers getting to decide who lives and who dies by whether or not they have "desirable personality traits" is not one that inspires confidence in a rational future.

[void]

Those pesky boffins do love their eugenics.

Professor - "I woulda gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky Ickeans and their dog"

Btw, it looks your avatar has supernova-d, Zero1 :)

[zero1]

Professor - "I woulda gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky Ickeans and their dog".

Ha! :D:p

Btw, it looks your avatar has supernova-d, Zero1 :)

Yeah. The smirky-Sun didn't cut it anymore, so I went with the Gold Code for startling effect (I hope!). :)

[ritchs]

Egad, will we be going back to phrenology, reading the bumps on peoples heads, which was popular in Victorian times. :)

When you look at scientists and mathematicians, many have the high prominent forehead. A larger cranial vault for a larger brain, the proverbial 'egghead'
Maybe thats a myth?

[gilly]

[QUOTE=ritchs;923861]Egad, will we be going back to phrenology, reading the bumps on peoples heads, which was popular in Victorian times. :)
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That's exactly what I thought too.

But if there's any brain-scanning going on these days, I'll bet it's more to do with trying to evaluate whose brains exhibit evidence of (left brain) evolutionary traits.

[killmicrosoft]

Personality is part of your person and not part of your human being ness

[cleopatraxxx]

i have always known about PHRENOLOGY, since i first read about it when i was 15 years old.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/PhrenologyPix.jpg
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Phrenology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules (see modularity of mind).[4] Phrenologists believed that the mind has a set of different mental faculties, with each particular faculty represented in a different area of the brain. These areas were said to be proportional to a person's propensities, and the importance of the given mental faculty. It was believed that the cranial bone conformed in order to accommodate the different sizes of these particular areas of the brain in different individuals, so that a person's capacity for a given personality trait could be determined simply by measuring the area of the skull that overlies the corresponding area of the brain.

In the history of personality theory, phrenology is considered to be an advance over the old medical theory of the four humours. However, it has no predictive power and is therefore dismissed as quackery by modern scientific discourse.
An 1883 phrenology chart.

Phrenology, which focuses on personality and character, should be distinguished from craniometry, which is the study of skull size, weight and shape, and physiognomy, the study of facial features. However, these disciplines have claimed the ability to predict personality traits or intelligence (in fields such as anthropology/ethnology), and were sometimes posed to scientifically justify racism."


Phrenology model, 1860s (http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=248)
As this model illustrates,
http://www.thelibraryshop.org/prodimages/3053-DEFAULT-l.jpg
phrenologists believed the brain was divided into thirty-seven distinct physical organs, each responsible for a different trait such as acquisitiveness, benevolence, or spirituality. By "reading" the bumps on a person's head, a phrenologist could determine which characteristics were most prominent. While emphasizing the link between biology and behavior, phrenology also held that, through intellectual and moral exercise, individuals could alter the size and shape of their brain and thus improve their character. This bust, created by Lorenzo Niles Fowler, a leading manufacturer of phrenological paraphernalia, was purchased in 1961 for the medical history exhibition in the new Museum of History and Technology.

[hellosatellites]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1169249/How-shape-brain-shows-kind-personality-have.html



Scientists may one day be able to find out what a young child’s personality will be like by simply scanning their brain, new research has shown.

New research has found that the shape of your brain gives a clue to what type of person you are.

The differences in the shape of the brains of 85 people were scanned and measured.

They found that larger or smaller amounts of tissue in certain areas of the brains were linked to specific personality traits.

The prospects are interesting, and the undertaking of relentlessly trying to understand our basic fabric is so cute...but the limitation of science - and scientifically based techniques and studies - is that science can only find what they are looking for, the personality characteristics they already know and have labelled :)

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The prospects are interesting, and the undertaking of relentlessly trying to understand our basic fabric is so cute...but the limitation of science - and scientifically based techniques and studies - is that science can only find what they are looking for, the personality characteristics they already know and have labelled :)
Yeah I was thinking the same.
And even if so, if they are going to come with facts, then let them demonstrate it on live television, and show us who the guinea pigs are and what kind of people they are etc. I'm not going to simply believe this, this characteristic is there in the brain, faith is up here, fear down there etc. etc. Let them demonstrate it to everyone of us in a empirical way, not just cheap articles. No offence to the OP, but we are to easy to believe things.. how do we know they(scientists) speak the truth..?
Indeed, they got some expectations and that's where they will concentrate on. Science isn't fully objective, it's only a wet dream to think that it is.

[ritchs]

Phrenology, like palmistry may have more to it then we realize. It's one of those backwaters of human knowledge that may need some further investigating.

Cleaopatraxx pointed out the early history, and this was one of those areas that morphed into what we call 'modern science' with a rigorous approach to methodology and proof. But it may turn out that some knowledge has been surpressed by the 'controllers' who don't want us getting too smart for our britches.