The recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioural characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying categories of people.
（对个人心理、行为特征的）剖析研究（以评定或预测其在某领域潜力或认识某一种人）
we put everyone through psychometric profiling
the police are building up a comprehensive system of offender profiling to assist in the hunt for murderers and rapists
Example sentencesExamples
That's been the biggest nut to crack with selling psychological profiling.
In their search for the sniper, police are relying on psychological profiling to better understand and predict what's going through the sniper's mind.
This is the second myth of ID checks: that identification combined with profiling can be an indicator of intention.
Now, I have spoken to FBI profilers and it is a fascinating subject, but psychological profiling has a relatively limited application.
There's no psychological profiling or involuntary behavioural modification going on here, just a cassette playing a muffled selection of old dance anthems, the hits of Ibiza '97.
Despite those late hitches, David Stuttard's new adaptation of Antigone, with its value-added psychological profiling, still emerged triumphant.
The goal of investigative psychology's form of profiling, like all profiling, is to infer characteristics of a criminal based on his or her behavior during the crime.
It is important that research continues in order to establish how far profiling could be clinically useful, and it is critical that developments are kept under review.
This company specializes in psychological profiling.
The Israelis also use ethnic and behavioral profiling to spot everything from mules - unwitting accomplices who carry lethal devices - to suicide bombers.
Definition of profiling in US English:
profiling
nounˈprōˌfīliNGˈproʊˌfaɪlɪŋ
The recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying a particular subgroup of people.
（对个人心理、行为特征的）剖析研究（以评定或预测其在某领域潜力或认识某一种人）
we put everyone through psychometric profiling
the police are building up a comprehensive system of offender profiling to assist in the hunt for murderers and rapists
Example sentencesExamples
That's been the biggest nut to crack with selling psychological profiling.
In their search for the sniper, police are relying on psychological profiling to better understand and predict what's going through the sniper's mind.
Despite those late hitches, David Stuttard's new adaptation of Antigone, with its value-added psychological profiling, still emerged triumphant.
The goal of investigative psychology's form of profiling, like all profiling, is to infer characteristics of a criminal based on his or her behavior during the crime.
There's no psychological profiling or involuntary behavioural modification going on here, just a cassette playing a muffled selection of old dance anthems, the hits of Ibiza '97.
The Israelis also use ethnic and behavioral profiling to spot everything from mules - unwitting accomplices who carry lethal devices - to suicide bombers.
This is the second myth of ID checks: that identification combined with profiling can be an indicator of intention.
This company specializes in psychological profiling.
Now, I have spoken to FBI profilers and it is a fascinating subject, but psychological profiling has a relatively limited application.
It is important that research continues in order to establish how far profiling could be clinically useful, and it is critical that developments are kept under review.