Analyze your handwriting using graphology
- by Bethany Sanders (RSS feed) on Mar 25th 2008 8:00AM
- Filed under miscellaneous
So you love detective work but don't have the stomach for CSI -- what's a mystery lover to do? Take up graphology! Graphology is the study of handwriting and how it relates to human psychology. Graphologists say that they can learn a lot about a person simply by studying their signature. For instance, round signatures tend to mean that a person is reliable, while an illegible signature may mean you are keeping a secret.
Graphology is far from a science and its use is controversial. But since we're not trying to prepare evidence for a court of law and instead are trying to have a little fun, let's give it a whirl. Learn a few tricks about how to decipher your own handwriting here, and follow along as I analyze my own in the gallery below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-25-2008 @ 9:49AM
Diane Rixon said...
Bethany! Love your gallery!! You have beautiful handwriting, FYI. :)
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3-27-2008 @ 2:47AM
Carole Rule said...
Bethany
This is why so many people think graphology is a fraud. For one thing we try to get cursive writing if possible because it shows more than printing. Also we try to get just about anything besides a list like this. One good thing was you showed your signature along with the list.
However, what I would have told you is that your signature shows a good sense of humor. It also tells me you are very sensitive so you will get very defensive if your work is criticized and it would totally ruin your day if someone made a vague remark about your hair or what you are wearing. You would worry and wonder what was so bad about your choices. At the time you wrote this there was something in your everyday life you were very unhappy about. The pressure and size show you are very aware that you are Bethany SANDORS. From your writing I would say you are young enough to not have had penmanship in school because you write with the hand and wrist rather than from the elbow thus there is a change in the writing about 2/3's of the way along the name. This is about half of what I can tell you from just part of your name but I hope you can see why those short this means this that means that blogs etc help give graphology a bad name.
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3-27-2008 @ 9:11AM
Bethany Sanders said...
Carole,
Wow, that was really interesting! I'd love to hear more. Do you have a website?
I actually did have penmanship in school, but never felt like I was very good at it. Your other remarks though, some of them are spot on.
Thanks for commenting!
3-27-2008 @ 10:31AM
Maggie said...
Among other things I'm apparently shifty and I overcompensate.
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3-27-2008 @ 2:05PM
Carole Rule said...
Hi Bethany,
I have a website at www.handwritingexplained.com and a link from there to my blog on graphology. We were taught to just rest the hand on the desk and move from the elbow and not the wrist.hould see me write though I turn the paper almost sideways to get my slant. Anyway check it out.
Carole
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3-30-2008 @ 9:18PM
M.E. Williams said...
IDK that the cross on the T slanting up means much of anything if the next letter is H, especially if they're both lower-case! ;)
(It would be more unusual if the crossbar *didn't* slant up in this style of writing.)
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