11.3.2. GROUP 2: THE SELFISH PROPENSITIES
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These faculties are found at the sides of the head, above or around the ears. Excessive width or narrowness of the head in these regions may be the determining factor of their development, rather than any smaller, localized bulges.

7. Vitativeness: When developed, a token of vitality, with the ability to resist ailments. Excessive development shows worry over illness and fear of the future. Deficiency shows lack of stamina or a sickly individual.

8. Combativeness: Reasonably developed, this shows a courageous, energetic nature, with strong powers of resistance. Further development, however, marks the antagonist rather than a good competitor. Excessive development is accompanied by a quarrelsome, quick-tempered disposition, given to argument. Deficiency is the sign of a cowardly, fearful person incapable of self-defense.

9. Destructiveness: When developed, a hard, severe nature, yet efficient as well as ruthless, therefore indicative of executive capacity. Excessive development shows a vindictive trends both cruel and malicious. Deficiency means inability to give orders and a general voidance of decision.

10. Alimentiveness: The faculty ruling the appetite, according to later phrenologists. Developed, the sign of the good eater, fond of food and drink. Excessive development marks the glutton and compulsive drinker. Deficiency, a light and finicky eater, frequently an abstainer.

11. Acquisitiveness: When developed, this shows a thrifty nature, capable of gaining great wealth, with great desire for same. Excessive development is the sign of a miserly, even thieving nature. Deficiency is found in the spendthrift and others who do not recognize the value of money.

12. Secretiveness: Duly developed, this shows a tactful well-restrained nature, capable of discretion, but sometimes inclined to shrewd practices. Excessive development is often accompanied by deceit and double-dealing to the extent of outright prevarication. Deficiency of this faculty connotes an over-talkative, indiscreet nature, incapable of keeping a confidence.

13. Cautiousness: When developed, this shows a careful, watchful disposition, unwilling to take risks and therefore apt to be apprehensive in many ways. Excessive development causes a person to postpone plans indefinitely, rousing prejudice or even fear in a hesitant mind. Deficiency denotes a reckless, careless nature that plunges into anything, including trouble.

Expert phrenologists are careful not to confuse the faculties of combativeness and cautiousness, though the positive phase of one resembles the negative of the other and vice versa.