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When this book was published in 1921, Elsie Lincoln Benedict's How to Analyze People on Sight was received as a serious scientific work of analytic sociology, but fast forward 90 years and the same words ring hilariously. Apparently well intended at the time, the book appears to invent the very notion of stereotyping.

En Cómo analizar a las personas, Elsie Lincoln analiza los secretos de la personalidad humana. Se trata de un viaje a través de la fisiognomía, la grafología y la psicología, cuyo fin es desentrañar los misterios detrás de la apariencia y el comportamiento humano. En las páginas de este libro, además de un rico estudio de los rasgos dominantes de la persona (timidez, sinceridad, etc.), el lector encontrará un repaso de las teorías más importantes sobre la fisonomía humana. Un libro intrigante, apasionante, hecho para descifrar a los demás y mejorar las capacidades de observación.

How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types - This popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of "Human Analysis". She proposes that, within the human race, five sub-types have developed through evolutionary processes, each with its own distinct character traits and corresponding outward appearance. She offers to teach the reader how to recognise these five types of people and understand their innate differences. Her ideas have never been ...

What Newspapers Have Said About Elsie Benedict and Her Work "Over fifty thousand people heard Elsie Lincoln Benedict at the City Auditorium during her six weeks lecture engagement in Milwaukee."-Milwaukee Leader, April 2, 1921. "Elsie Lincoln Benedict has a brilliant record. She is like a fresh breath of Colorado ozone. Her ideas are as stimulating as the health-giving breezes of the Rockies."-New York Evening Mail, April 16, 1914.