Transcript Discovering Strengths and weaknesses Through graphology

INTRODUCTION
TO GRAPHOLOGY
Etymology
 Grapho
– to write
 Logos – study

Graphology – Handwriting Analysis;
method of determining one’s behavior
based one’s handwriting. In this study,
depression is being determined by
graphology.
The TRUTH
 Appearances
can be
deceiving but Handwriting
Never LIES..
- Michelle
Dresbold (2006)
What can you say about this
handwriting sample?
How about with this one?
This one?
Which one of these writers is more
nurturing?
A
B
Which one of these writers is more
nurturing?
A
Mother Teresa
A murderer and
a Torturer
B
Heinrich Himmler
A gentle
woman who
dedicated her
life to nurturing
and healing the
poorest of the
poor
Which one of the writers tends to
be inconsistent?
A
B
Which one would be more fun at the party?
Who is the life of the party?
Your Own Writing Sample
Write a letter to yourself of at least two
paragraphs. The verbal content of your
message is unimportant, so just relax
and write in usual style (CURSIVE
form).
WHAT IS GRAPHOLOGY or
Handwriting Analysis?
It is a MODERN Form of PSYCHOLOGY
that identifies personality traits and
Human Character through Handwriting.
- Bart Baggett (2004)
Two Types of Approaches
1. Trait Strokes
- Individual ingredient of the
handwriting.
2. Gestalt
- the “whole” picture
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: What does Handwriting REVEAL?
A: Handwriting reveals the true
personality, including emotional outlay,
fears, honesty, defenses, and over 100
other individual Personality Traits.
FAQ
Q: What CAN you NOT tell from a
handwriting sample?
A: Age
Race
Gender
Religion
Nationality
Future
Writing Hand
FAQ
Q: How does handwriting reveal
personality?
A: Handwriting is often referred to as
“BRAIN WRITING”. Research scientists
in the field of neuroscience have
categorized neuromuscular movement
tendencies as they are correlated with
specific observable personality traits.
FAQ
Q: How accurate is Handwriting
Analysis?
A: It is only as accurate as the analyst is
skilled. Most professionals claim to be
85 – 95% accurate.
Who uses Handwriting Analysis?
A: FBI, CIA and Mossad (Israel’s
intelligence agency) use it to build
detailed psychological profiles of some
of the world’s most dangerous
individuals.
Who uses Handwriting Analysis?
A: Anyone who is interested in gaining a
better understanding of himself and
others or making a positive change in
his own life.
Who uses HA?
Individuals – for self-improvement, to
gain understanding of themselves, and
often incorporate aspects of graphotherapy to change bad habits.
Who uses HA?
Single people – to aid in the selection of
compatible partners.
Couples – to improve current
relationships through better
understanding and communication.
Who uses HA?
Business– for selecting applicants,
determining good business partners,
etc....
Psychologists and counselors– for
personality evaluation and therapy
Who uses HA?
Teachers– for understanding their
students better in order to plan
appropriate teaching strategies.
Psychologists and counselors– for
personality evaluation and therapy
FAQ
Q: What about people who print?
A: People who print have put up a barrier
to keep the world from getting to know
them.
* They do not easily express their
innermost feelings.
People who print…
•
•
•
Take longer to experience intimacy.
Tend to have a strong external protective
mental shell that is often seen as
confidence.
Mostly, men prefer to write in PRINT
FAQ
Q: Why does my handwriting change all
the time?
A: Certain strokes represent emotions and
moods.
• As your feelings and moods change from
minute to minute, those corresponding
particular strokes will change.
• However, the basic character-defining
traits will remain the same.
The BEGINNING
* Edgar
Allan Poe – a great
American Poet,
employed the term
Autographery
Brief Background
*2nd century
- China (Calligraphers)
*99 A.D.
- Rome (Suetonius Tranquilius)
Brief Background
•
1662 – Camillo Baldi
•
•
First book on the subject was
written.
1871 – Abbe Jean Hippolyte
Michon
•
Published two more books and
coined the term
“GRAPHOLOGY”
Brief Background
1979 – most graphology books
were placed in psychological
selection categories in the
Dewey Decimal Classification
at the Library of Congress, USA
Brief Background
1989 – the US Dept. of labor
changed category of
Graphology from
Entertainment to
Miscellaneous
professional
TOOLS NEEDED IN GRAPHOLOGY
Pen
Ruler
Paper (8”x11”)
Magnifying galss
Protractor
HOW TO PREPARE A
HANDWRITING SPECIMEN
Use the prescribed tools
Take note:
 sex of the writer
handedness
frequency of writing
number of signatures used
mood of the writer
Preparing a Specimen
Content should be not less than
3 paragraphs
Put the signature (normally
used) below
At the back of the sheet or in
another sheet, write other
signatures used
Topic Outline
 Zones
 Slants
 Spaces
 Margins
 Garlands
 Loops

Individual Letters
Zones
Upper Zone
Middle Zone
Lower Zone
Normal balance between the Zones
•Flexible and adaptable
• Can Handle thoughts and feelings well
• Has no hesitancy to accomplish any
given task
•Well-balanced physical drives.
•Has the ability to control his impulse.
Upper Zones
Upper Zones
 Correlates
with the head
 It represents your ideas, dreams, and
thinking processes.
 What goes on in your head?
◦ You THINK
◦ You FANTASIZE
◦ You HOPE
◦ You IMAGINE
Overly EXTENDED Upper Zone
Very small Upper Zone
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Lacks creativity and imagination
His importance is placed instead upon
practical considerations
Good Script – self-reliant, realistic and
flexible
Poor Script – greed, materialism and
sensuality
Middle Zones
Middle Zones
 Correlates
with middle part of the
body.
 It represents your social &
practical needs.
 About living in the here and now.
 How you communicate with
others in your day-to-day
relationships
STRONGLY Developed Middle
Zone
STRONGLY Developed Middle
Zone
 Overly concerned for himself
and his own daily activities.
 Tends to make great issues
on trivial things.
 Confinement in a selfcentered world.
MZ is DWARFED by UZ and LZ
MZ is DWARFED by UZ and LZ
 Underrate
himself and suffer from
inferiority feelings.
 Finds little joy in daily life and
prefers not to cope with its
problems.

With a good form quality, such a
writer is usually creative (If the MZ is
very small, but both of the other zones
are extended and the baseline is firm
but flexible).
Lower Zones
Lower Zones
 Correlates
with lower part of the
body.
 What goes on with your lower body?
◦
◦
◦
◦
You WALK
You RUN
You DANCE
You MAKE LOVE
 It
represents your physical, material,
sexual needs, urges and appetites.
Dominant Lower Zone
Dominant Lower Zone
 Dominated
by powerful
unconscious forces relating to
survival needs, materialism and
reproductive imperatives.
 Restless
and needs constant variety
and change (much of his time is
spent trying to satisfy his enormous
appetites for money, sex and
variety.
Retraced LZ
Retraced LZ
 Repression
of early
childhood traumas and
sexual feelings.
 Blocking
so much
responsiveness that close
relationships with the writer
are so difficult.
Things to ponder…
 In
school, it is recommended
that teachers practice their
students to write a balance in
the three zones to avoid
possible production of
individuals who are braggarts,
immature, greedy and have
little control over
temptations.
Things to ponder…
 Guidance
Counselors who
noticed a student for having an
imbalanced writing in the three
zones, and confirmed significant
concerns in the latter’s behavior
might take into consideration to
make use of grapho-therapy
together with their preferred
counseling philosophy.
Things to ponder…
 In
a company, HR experts may
take into consideration to clearly
check and evaluate the balance in
the three zones, and together
with the other personality tests,
HR experts may be able to hire
competent employees depending
on the company’s needs.
Slants
Graphology Indicators
irregular
extreme
Slants
 Refers
to the directions of the letter
slope
 Generally indicates the degree of
emotional responsiveness of a
person towards his environment.
 Also shows Personality Types
(Introversion, Extraversion and
Ambiversion)
Slants
 any
stroke ending to the right side of
the page symbolizes a movement
toward other people or the future.
 Any stroke ending to the left
symbolizes a tendency to be
withdrawn or to move into the past.
Right Slanted
Right Slanted
 Normal
handwriting is considered to be
slightly right-slanted which indicates a
person’s being normally sensitive and
emotionally healthy, but with moderate
responses.
 The
more right-slanted the handwriting
becomes, the more emotionally
responsive a person becomes.
Left Slanted
Left Slanted
 Left
–slant indicates how emotionally
withdrawn a person tends to
become.
 The
more left-slanted the
handwriting becomes, the more
emotionally withdrawn a person
becomes.
Vertical Slanted
Vertical Slanted
 Head
over heart emotional
attitude.
 Open to experiences but
cautious and controlled.
 Can easily regain emotional
control once lost.
 Attractive and a Leadership
Potential
Varying
Varying
 Unsettled
and inconsistent
 Moody
 Emotional
nature is erratic, you
never know how he will react
 Nervous
 Undisciplined
 Excitable
 Lacking in judgment or common
sense.
Things to ponder
 In
school, teachers may
check their students’ writing
slants, and try to observe the
effect of these on the
students’ behavior,
specifically on social
orientation and emotional
responsiveness.
Things to ponder
 If
the teacher notices a student
to be extremely right or left
slanted, he may assist the latter
to eventually change his writing
into vertical slant or slightly
slanted to the right to prevent
the production of individuals
who are extremely reactive
and/or withdrawn.
Things to ponder
 In
a company, if graphology is
used in hiring employees, it is
always practical to consider the
job description of the prospective
employees.
 If the company needs someone
who is sociable, sympathetic and
compassionate, the HR expert
might want to hire a slightly
right-slanted writer.
Things to ponder
 If
the company needs someone
who has a head over heart
emotional attitude, and is open to
experiences but cautious and
controlled, then the HR expert
might want to hire a verticalslanted writer.
Things to ponder
 However, if
the company needs
someone who still manages to
be charming in social situations
while remaining emotionally
aloof, then the HR expert might
want to hire a slightly leftslanted writer.
Margin
Narrow left margin
Widening right margin
Spacing
 Spacing
between the Lines
 Spacing between the Words
 Spacing between the Letters
Spacing between the LINES
Spacing between the LINES
 Kurdsen
(1971) uttered that
spacing between the lines is
recognized as the picture of the
Writer’s MIND dependent upon
his temporary state.
Spacing between the LINES
 Amend
& Ruiz (1980) stressed that
spacing between lines represents
how much one wishes to interact
with his environment.
 Lowe (2007) emphasized that it is an
indication of self-control and how
one wants to be clearly understood
when communicating with other
people.
Average Line Spacing
Average Line Spacing
Able
to think clearly and
logically.
Indicates harmonious and
flexible relationship with
other people.
Narrow Line Spacing
Narrow Line Spacing
 Impulsiveness
(rushing ahead too
quickly without thinking ahead).
 Genuinely conscious of the need to
use his resources very carefully.
 As the line spacing becomes
narrower, the more the writer
becomes impulsive, stingy, and
lacking of ability for abstract
thinking and objectivity.
Wide Line Spacing
Wide Line Spacing
Moderately wide line spacing indicates
order and system, analytical mind,
capacity for clear presentation of
complicated data, and good manners.
 However, the wider the line spacing
becomes, the more the tendency an
individual becomes Pedant (inflexible
and/or rigid), aloof, afraid of making
logical mistakes, incoherent and
indecisive.

Spacing between WORDS
 Amend
& Ruiz (1980) stressed
that spaces between words
indicate one’s desire to be
perceived in terms of mingling
with other people.
Small Even Spaces
Small Even Spaces
 Active
 Reasonable
 Self-confident
with good balance
and the capacity to be a good
homemaker.
 Indicates extroversion
Wide Even Spaces
Wide Even Spaces
 Interest
in literature
 Fond of music and poetry
 Indicates introversion with
deep feeling.
 Firmly-rooted convictions
 Cautious
 Sometimes indecisive
Spacing between LETTERS
 Amend
& Ruiz (1980) stressed
that spaces between letters
indicate one’s personal desire in
terms of mingling with other
people.
 Sheila Lowe (2007) uttered that
spaces between letters indicate
the freedom the writer allows
himself internally.
Average Spaces
 Well-balanced
relationship
with other people.
 Flexibility in social gatherings.
 Ability to maintain close
relationships.
Crowded close to each other
 Cautious
 Introverted
 Sometimes conscious
anxious
and
Expansive letters
 Outgoing
 Extroverted
 Loves to have
 Sociable
fun
Things to ponder
 In
school, it is recommended
that teachers check their
students’ writing spaces (line,
words and letters). Helping
their students maintain
average spaces may assist
them to achieve more
peaceful classroom
environment.
Things to ponder
 In
a company, its is
recommended that HR experts
check their applicants’ spaces. If
they notice the inconsistencies in
the writers’ spaces, they may
create questions before the final
interview about the consistencies
between his values, thinking and
behavior.
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* HELPING traits
* NOT HELPING traits
* BOTH Helping and Not Helping
traits
Interactive Traits Directory
Researches in Graphology
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APA Guidelines For Educational and
Psychological Testing
American Psychological Association
APA: 1974.
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Barrow, N K and Scott, R H
Validation of a personnel Selection System to
meet EEOC Guidelines.
Journal Of Handwriting Psychology
1984, 1 (1), 15 - 17
Researches in Graphology
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Sassoon, R. - Children's Handwriting As An
Indicator of Stress;
International Journal of Psychology;
V0027 N3-4, p 440, Jun-Aug 1992.

Schmitt, J, Neal, J & Klimoski, R:
Research Method's in Human Resources
Management.
South Western Publications, Cincinnati, OH:
1991.
References
Amend, K. & Ruiz, M. (1980)
 Baggett, B. (2004)
 Baggett, B. (2007)
 Bradley, N. (2005)
 Dresbold, M. (2006)
 Kurdsen, N. (1971)
 Lowe, S. (2007)
 Handwriting University International (HUI)
 Handwriting Analyst International (HAI)
 Ocampa Handwriting Analysis (OHA)
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