PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Sheldon, there are three somatotypes: slim ectomorphs, muscular mesomorphs, and smooth endomorphs. Endomorphs, in his view, are relaxed and sociable, mesomorphs active and assertive, and ectomorphs quiet and restrained. Three somatotypes are ideal types: most people have a mixture of multiple somatotypes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Somatotype theory relates distinctive body types to personality characteristics and relates criminal behavior to the body types. Somatotype theory is most commonly associated with William Sheldon. Sheldon’s somatotype theory established three basic body types: endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph.

Detailed explanation-3: -A key criticism of Sheldon’s constitutional theory is that it was not a theory at all but a general assumption of continuity between structure and behavior and a set of descriptive concepts to measure physique and behavior in a scaled manner.

Detailed explanation-4: -Body type, or somatotype, refers to the idea that there are three generalized body compositions that people are predetermined to have. The concept was theorized by Dr. W.H. Sheldon back in the early 1940s, naming the three somatotypes endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph.