The success of film “Physiognomy” surpassed all expectations with its impressive figure of nearly 9 million views and counting! So much so that a spin-off TV drama series is in the works as a ...

Last year’s introduction of a fifth iteration of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often called the “bible for psychiatrists,” was a magnet for controversy and heated ...

Physiognomy is the judging of an individual's character from their facial appearance. This practice exists in many cultural groups and notably among Chinese groups. There are a number of aspects about ...

A Korean movie “Physiognomy” has proved successful with reaching over 5.5 million viewers. On September 21, according to Korean Film Council statistics, “Physiognomy” climbed to the top spot for ...

There’s a long history of once-popular sciences that were eventually discredited and left to die. Physiognomy — face-reading — is one of those sciences. But it might be making a comeback. Imbued with ...

Pseudo-science, social fad, literary wonder: Johann Caspar Lavater and the art of physiognomy / Ellis Shookman -- Letters of the divine alphabet: Lavater's concept of physiognomy / Christoph Siegrist ...

For thousands of years, physiognomy—pseudoscience that purports to divine a person’s character from their physical appearance—was accepted as a valid fact. Phrenology, for example, attempted to ...

THERE is always a peculiar pleasure in the discovery that some subtle and unspoken-of flavor, vaguely felt by ourselves as belonging to any object or experience, is shared in the same intangible way ...