The slender and long-limbed body type is described as longilineal. In older psychological and constitutional typologies, body type was thought to correlate with certain personality characteristics or mental predispositions as proposed by Ernst Kretschmer and William Sheldon. Although modern psychology does not embrace such rigid body-type theories, the term is still used in anthropometric and personality psychology research. Example: Someone described as longilineal might be tall and slim, and would have been assigned an interpretation of personality as being introspective.
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