What's the difference between physiognomer and physiognomist?

Physiognomer


Definition:

  • (n.) Physiognomist.

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  • (1) Physiognomic perception, a cognitive style dimension through which people imbue objects with varying degrees of affect, was measured by a standardized and validated instrument known as the Stein Physiognomic Cue Test.
  • (2) This study was designed to determine whether veridical interpersonal perceptions can be found on the basis of physiognomic cues.
  • (3) The purpose of the present study was to determine whether physiognomic perception influenced community college students' selection of a variety of educational-vocational goals.
  • (4) During the recovery phase, symptoms of right hemisphere involvement were prominent with left-sided hemianopsia and diminished optokinetic nystagmus to the left, prosopagnosia in two cases, and dysmorphopsia with altered physiognomic recognition in one case.
  • (5) The correlations between nose height, nose length, and morphologic facial height and physiognomic facial height have been discussed.
  • (6) The hypothesis that physiognomic perception, rather than being an immature mode, characterizing, in particular, children, primitives, and schizophrenics, is, instead, a basic mode, was tested.
  • (7) Results supported the hypothesis that those individuals who demonstrated higher physiognomic perception would show greater flexibility in concept formation.
  • (8) 40 junior high school boys were rated as high or low physiognomic and administered a flexibility of concept-formation task.
  • (9) The expectation that females would have greater physiognomic tendencies than males was not confirmed for the present sample.
  • (10) Three disorders of facial recognition and perception in acute schizophrenia and mescaline-induced psychosis are described and illustrated using original clinical and experimental material: "affective prosopagnosia" or stress-related dysfunctional face recognition; "physiognomization" of the environment or persistent illusions and hallucinations of nonspecific faces; and the "mirror phenomenon" or the experience of inner alienation from one's reflected face, which is perceived as independently alive, sinister, and generally physically distorted.
  • (11) Results supported the hypothesis that those individuals with higher physiognomic perception would show more empathy than those with a lower degree of physiognomic perception.
  • (12) ), the deficit encompassed all perceptual operations on faces, including matching identical views of the same faces, but it did not extend to all categories of objects characterized by a close similarity among their instances; the second patient (P.M.) exhibited a less severe perceptual impairment but was unable to derive the configurational properties from a facial representation and to extract its physiognomic invariants; the third patient (P.C.)
  • (13) The following reports the findings of a study that tested the hypothesis that schizophrenics--contrary to what has been suggested in the literature--are deficient, rather than superior, in perception of physiognomic properties.
  • (14) The capacity of the patients implicitly to access pertinent knowledge related to overtly unrecognized faces was inversely related to the severity of their perceptual deficit, suggesting that some preserved ability to extract the physiognomic invariants of a face is a necessary condition for the occurrence of the phenomenon.
  • (15) This study analyses the physical and physiognomic semiotics characteristic of anxious persons which, together with other symptoms, lead to the diagnosis of the disorder caused by anxiety.
  • (16) The data clearly indicated superior recognition of physiognomic stimuli presented in the left visual field and above-chance-level performance of subjects' manual responses for these below-threshold stimuli.
  • (17) On the other hand, the study of the morphological and physiognomical facial indexes does not show any definitive correlation as regards the place of division and the number of secondary branches.
  • (18) Results were interpreted as adding evidence to the existence of physiognomic perception as a cognitive control principle.
  • (19) The hypothesis that students selecting various major fields of study would differ as a function of physiognomic tendencies was supported.
  • (20) Among others, eighteenth-century artists and anatomists helped to set these twentieth-century precedents, actually measuring deviations of external traits to analogous deformations of the soul, and drawing moral conclusions from physiognomic measurements.

Physiognomist


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Physiognomy, 1.
  • (n.) One skilled in physiognomy.
  • (n.) One who tells fortunes by physiognomy.

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