How Body Typing Became A Viral Craze

What's with the obsession with thinking that your body shape says something about you as a person? For a long time, humans held onto the belief that how we look is a clue to our personalities – whether that’s the medieval idea that outer beauty reflects inner virtue, or psychoanalyst Carl Jung saying that “bodily traits are not merely physical, nor mental traits merely psychic.” Today people are turning to the Kibbe system for an “image identity” and getting their entire essence defined.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 How body typing came back in
01:24 The pseudoscience is ages old
03:24 Why we compartmentalize ourselves (& others)
06:20 Breaking free from body types
09:13 Why there is no true type for anyone

CREDITS
Executive Producers: Susannah McCullough & Debra Minoff
Chief Creative Director: Susannah McCullough
Associate Producer: Tyler Browner
Writer: Harry Harris
Narrator: Charly Bivona
Video Editor: Hadley McCollester

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