Imagine that you have borrowed an exercise book of your friend. But sadly, you forgot witch friend you borrowed from. And there are not name of surname on the book cover. What to do?
As we know, every person has a different handwriting and people just with a little observation power can distinguish whose that handwriting is. Even children can distinguish their friends’ handwritings. So the problem is solved!! Isn’t it?
Psychologists always tries to find ways how to identify persons character and a handwriting analysis, or as it is called graphology, is a tool which can be used to discover aspects of a writer’s personality, inclinations and even some of their innermost desires. I can give some examples: if people write in ascending order it may show that the writer is ambitious, optimistic, initiative but also may be a bit aggressive and detached from reality. If writer writes in descending order it may be that he/she is unintuitive, gloomy or so. If people handwriting is rotational it means that writer may have shifting moods and a tendency to work according to his/ hers emotional state.
Writers’ personality can be also examined by size of letters. Large handwriting shows that writer may have a lack in sense of duty also people with large handwriting usually are not good at observing small details. On the other hand people with small handwriting are known as intelligent. They also can memorize a lot of things really easy.
Nowadays, handwriting analysis is sometimes used in big companies where new personnel are accepted, for example – France.
However there are still a lot of unknown and unexplained things. For example, we know that emotion can influence our writing, so is it really fair to determine character by the handwriting analysis only? I think that graphology has a long way to go, and maybe someday we will ready to discover writer’s personality with it.
References:
http://www.google.com/books?hl=lt&lr=&id=MAi9L2ofmUkC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=psychology+of+handwriting&ots=LHPWD1Vx9v&sig=s1mp3R-PfP-Hxepq_Ty73JZ9Hdc#v=onepage&q&f=false( taken: 2010.09 20)
http://www.astralis.it/scritto_e.htm (taken: 2010.09.23)
http://jurylaw.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/handwriting_sxc_432054_40119740.jpg (taken: 2010.09.23)
