Varieties of Delinquent Youth
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Those who have read Dr. Sheldon's earlier works, Varieties of Human Physique and Varieties of Human Temperament, will be acquainted with his general approach to psychological problems. He aims at discovering correlations between physical characteristics and psychological qualities?a sort of neoKretschmerism, but with the addition of a rating scale which makes it possible to describe that majority of us who are neither this, or that, or the
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