The Beatles' Public Personas as Representatives of Age-Old (and brand New) Four-Part Typologies of Personality

Abstract

: This case study aligns the public personas of the four Beatles with categories in several four-part typologies representing (a) the four humors, (b) the four directions of the medicine wheel, (c) four personality types described by Eysenck, and (d) four types involving the Big Five personality factors. Figures and a table highlight the “type” of each Beatle’s persona: Lennon’s persona is Choleric, McCartney’s is Sanguine, Starr’s is Phlegmatic, and Harrison’s is Melancholic.