The cheeks.

Citation

Wells, S. R. (1866). The cheeks. In S. R. Wells, New physiognomy, or, Signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in "the human face divine" (pp. 250-257). New York, NY, US: Fowler and Wells Co Publishers.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/14172-014

Abstract

Cheeks differ as widely as noses, eyes, and months. They are round and full, or angular and hollow; red or pale; dark or light; ,rosy, peachy, olive, brown, sallow, chalky. In some, the malar bone is high, and projects anteriorly and laterally, producing the Indian form of face; while in others it is gracefully rounded off, leaving the cheek relatively fuller below. About the eyes there are protuberances and concavities, advancing and receding points, elevations and depressions; and so with every other part. In short, the forms of the face are as varied as those of the cranium, and doubtless equally significant, since the bones of the face must correspond, in a general way at least, with those of the skull, and both with the mental organization. If we fail to read character as readily on the one as on the other, it is doubtless because we are less familiar with the language in which it is there recorded. We shall find, when we know ourselves better, that the outer and the inner man correspond in every part. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)