Stellar velocity dispersion profiles integrated within elliptical apertures with increasing semimajor radius. The profiles are normalized by the effective velocity dispersion (σ_e within the effective radius (R_e)). The galaxies were divided depending on the shape of their profile: (top panel) declining galaxies and (bottom panel) steadily increasing galaxies, which naturally correspond to early-type and late-type galaxies, respectively. For early-type galaxies, the red line is the average fit taking volume corrections into account. Dashed lines indicate the uncertainty of the fit. For late-type galaxies, dotted lines indicate average fits for different intervals of stellar mass, while solid lines indicate average fits for different intervals of absolute magnitude. For clarity, we did not include the lines with uncertainties in these cases. Averages for late types also take volume corrections into account.