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Graphology Notes

Graphology Notes. What can you tell from handwriting?. Gender (e.g., Burr, 2002): Try to determine the gender for each of the following…. What can you tell from handwriting?. What can you tell from handwriting?. What can you tell from handwriting?. What can you tell from handwriting?.

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Graphology Notes

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  1. Graphology Notes

  2. What can you tell from handwriting? • Gender (e.g., Burr, 2002): • Try to determine the gender for each of the following…

  3. What can you tell from handwriting?

  4. What can you tell from handwriting?

  5. What can you tell from handwriting?

  6. What can you tell from handwriting?

  7. Answers • 2 = M • 1 = M • 7 = F • 8 = F

  8. What can you tell from handwriting? • Age (e.g., Middleton, 1941): • Try to determine the age for each of the following (under 40 or over 40)…

  9. What can you tell from handwriting?

  10. What can you tell from handwriting?

  11. What can you tell from handwriting?

  12. Answers • 2 = Under 40 (M) • 9 = Under 40 (F) • 8 = Over 40 (F)

  13. What can you tell from handwriting? • Not personality (e.g., Furnham, Chamorro-Premuzic, & Callahan, 2003): • Sensation seeking is “a personality trait…that expresses as a need for physiological arousal, novel experience, and a willingness to take social, physical, and financial risks to obtain such arousal” (Stephenson, Hoyle, Palmgreen, & Slater, 2003, p. 279). • Who is high and who is low?

  14. What can you tell from handwriting?

  15. What can you tell from handwriting?

  16. Answers • 3 = High (F) • 1 = Low (F)

  17. Our question is this: With the information that can be reliably gleaned from handwriting, could someone produce personality profiles that looked “real?”

  18. It’s related to the Barnum Effect: Vague, generally positive personality descriptions will be accepted by most people as true, even though they could be true of anyone (Forer, 1949).

  19. Forer (1949) • You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. Your sexual adjustment has presented problems for you. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life.

  20. In this case, it’s more effective, because the personality description can be personalized for the individual.

  21. We’re going to test it out…

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