{"id":2627,"date":"2016-11-29T02:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psicopico.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:31:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T11:31:35","slug":"podemos-saber-alguien-bueno-malo-aspecto-fisico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psicopico.com\/en\/podemos-saber-alguien-bueno-malo-aspecto-fisico\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we know if someone is good or bad because of their physical appearance?"},"content":{"rendered":"I’ll start the article by giving an answer to the question, as if it were a spoiler. If I could only answer with a yes or no to the question of whether one can know whether someone is good or bad by their physical appearance, I would opt for a no (or a depends). Mainly because of the multitude of vital and genetic events that have to come together to develop a psychopathic, delinquent, criminal or antisocial personality. However, over the years there have been different theories that have studied the relationship of physical traits to delinquency. Therefore, if you continue reading you will find an answer to your doubts.
\nThere are a multitude of personality theories that attempt to explain antisocial or criminal behavior from different approaches and scientific currents that have contributed data of relevant value for criminology. One of the most striking theories is that which are based on biological types, are the so-called constitutional theories of personality that base their hypotheses on the physical characteristics of people, their body shapes and certain physical anomalies.<\/p>\n

The delinquent man, by C\u00e9sare Lombroso.<\/h2>\n

The first modern author who studied this type of psychobiological theories was the Italian psychiatrist and criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1876), who posited the existence of a prototype of a delinquent man. According to Lombroso the criminal man was predisposed to crime and his physical characteristics stigmatized him as such. Men predisposed to delinquency had low cranial capacity, low forehead and retreat, large jaws, high cheekbones, large ears, insensitivity to pain, thick and curly hair, and anomalies in eyes, lips, ears, genitals. Lombroso even said that criminal men tended to have female traits and female delinquents male traits. In addition, he identified certain psychological characteristics such as moral insensitivity, lack of remorse (consistent with psychopathy), lack of awareness, cynical personality, vain, impulsive and categorized them as cruel, treacherous and vague people. His theory was lacking in scientific rigor but marked the ideas for later similar theories.<\/p>\n

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The somatic types of personality, by Kretschmer and Sheldon.<\/h2>\n

One of the theories based on the relationship between human body and criminality are those developed by German Ernst Krestchmer (1888-1964) and American William Sheldon (1898-1977), who served as a source of inspiration for the most recent criminological studies on The personality of Hans Eysenck (1916-1997).<\/p>\n

The Krestchmer model proposed that the psychosomatic relationship and the constitutional types gave rise to 3 types of corporeal (and a mixed one) to which certain somatic and psychological characteristics corresponded to them.<\/p>\n