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Noun: constitutional psychology
  1. (Psychology) a school of thought postulating that the personality of an individual is dependent on the type of his physique (somatotype).
    "Constitutional psychology is a now discredited theory, developed in the 1940s by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon, associating body types with human temperament types."

Type of: scientific theory

Encyclopedia: Constitutional psychology