... other types of visual information to make an assessment upon what a person will be like and in what way they will behave. Within sport certain body types are attracted to different sports as their body type may make them successful in that particular sport. For example within sport long distance runner tend to be more of a ectomorph structure and we could see them as being shy and introverted as many of the hours training are spent alone and on an individual basis. Footballers and rugby players are predominantly mesmomorphic due to amount of physical contact their sport requires. These people tend to be extroverted and group centred. Shot putters are usually of an endomorph build in order to get maximum power from their throw. Trait theory Trait theory is based on the idea of someone's personality being the sum of several traits that cause an individual to behave in a ...

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