The psychology of handwriting

Graphology is the pseudoscientific study and analysis of handwriting especially in relation to human psychology. Handwriting involves both emotional and physical energy. Not unlike body language, handwriting can say a lot about a person’s character involving some aspects of a writer’s personality, and even some of their innermost desires. So to analyze a sample of handwriting graphologists use some fundamental features like a pen pressure, style, size, basic lines, the word “I“style, signature.

The first feature is a pen pressure and it analyzes person’s vitality. Heavy pressure belongs to a healthy, athletic individual. A light pen pressure shows that a person is unhealthy, delicate and very sensitive. And finally, medium pressure has no significance. The second feature is a person’s writing style. Everyone has individual writing style, but graphologists mark two leading styles. The first style letters are with wild tails winding on words and have flourishing script and it shows that the writers are likely to be dramatic themselves and to be highly conscious of how others view them. The second writing style letters are neat, tight and it shows that person is more introverted or shy. The third feature is size. It is interesting that large writing often gives a clue to exhibitionism and microscopic writing belongs to hermit or the introvert because most people use a normal-size script. The fourth feature is basic lines. Then lines run uphill it shows that the writer is optimistic and well-rested, but then lines run downhill it shows that the writer is tired, feel depressed or sick. The fifth important feature to analyze a personality is a writing style of word “I”. Person who writes I as a capital letter is mature and have self confidence in his self, but people who write I as i are usually tend to be lacking in self belief. The last feature is a person’s signature and there are two types of signature. First type is a small signature and it shows that the writer is in need of confidence and the second type is large signature usually full of flourishes and it shows that a person have a high degree of confidence in his self.

To summarize I want to say that we should remember that no analysis is perfect because every individual have their own writing style and some of them don’t fit in normal standards.

Refrences:
http://www.helium.com/knowledge/130504-tips-for-analyzing-peoples-handwriting[2010.09.19]