February 14, 2007
(This is the second of 4 parts)
There are about 65 primary personality or character traits and hundreds of evaluated traits. To be a good Graphoanalyst, you must know the primary traits and how to find them in a person’s writing. Then, armed with these traits or lack of these traits, you can put the right combinations together and come up with the writer’s complete evaluated personality profile. For example, what primary traits would you look for in identifying a potential thief? Acquisitiveness + tenacity + yielding + deceit + weak willpower – loyalty = potential thief. Once you learn how to get the evaluated personality and character traits, you can become an exceptionable Graphoanalyst. Since some traits will change or cancel out other traits, you cannot ever be 100% sure that the trait is true. But, the more you know about analyzing handwriting, the more accurate you will be. You should never look at somebody’s writing and tell them flat out that they are a thief or a sex maniac.
Okay, grab a pen and a piece of unlined paper. You need to write (in cursive) a couple of paragraphs and sign your name. It does not matter if you are right-handed or left-handed. It does not matter if you write in French, German, Spanish, English, or any other cursive language. In Graphoanalysis, we only look at the writing strokes and general appearance (slant, writing size, margins etc.) on the page. Sorry, we cannot analyze print or oriental (Japanese, Chinese, or Korean) characters.
Please compare your signature with the rest of your writing. Does it look the same? With most people, it is different. Your signature shows how you want other people to see you and your regular writing showshow you really are. Are you ready? Below, we will list theprimary traits in alphabetical order and tell you what the trait means and what to look for in the writing. As you find traits that you think are in your writing, write them down and next week we will learn how to go about analyzing your handwriting.
HANDWRITING ANALYSISPRIMARY TRAITS
TRAIT / WHAT THE TRAIT MEANS / WHAT TO LOOK FOR
Acquisitiveness
Analytical
Broad-minded
Caution
Clannishness
Comprehension
Concentration
Conflicting Interests
Conservative
Culture
Cumulative
Deceit
Decisiveness
Deliberate
Detail
Determination
Dignity
Domineering
Emotional Responsiveness
Emotional Depth
Enthusiasm
Exploratory
Fluidity
Generous
Goals (Ambition)
Humorous
Imagination (Material)
Imagination (Abstract)
Indecisive
Independent
Initiative
Intuition
Irritability
Jealousy
Loyalty
Narrow-minded
Optimistic
Organization Ability
Persistence
Pessimism
Physical Activity
Pride
Procrastination
Resentment
Responsibility
Rhythm
Sarcasm
Secretive
Self-confidence
Self-conscious
Self-control
Self-deceit
Sensitiveness
Sensuality
Sensuousness
Shallowness
Stubbornness
Suppression
Talkative
Temper
Tenacity
Variety
Will power
Yieldingness / Strong desire to acquire things.
Ability to evaluate information to determine its value.
Tolerant of other people’s ideas and behavior.
Wary of taking chances.
Tends to associate with a small select group of people.
Ability to understand things quickly.
Able to sustain a directed effort on a given task.
Person who has too many interests.
Keeps energy and belongings from being wasted.
Desire for refinement and may have talent for writing.
Logical or more deliberate type of thinker.
May not always tell the truth or be honest.
Person who knows exactly what he or she wants to do.
Careful or slow in considering how to do things.
Pays close attentions to details.
Ability to carry out a plan or to achieve a goal.
Person who wants to conduct self in proper fashion.
Person who expects others to obey their commands.
How a person will react to an emotional experience.
How long emotionalexperiences affect you.
Does things with a lot of interest and energy.
Examines the facts and wants to learn new things.
Able to change or adjust rapidly to different situations.
Person who is willing to give his or her time or money.
How high a person setshis or hergoals.
Person with a good sense of humor.
Ability to form mental images of things not actually present.
Imagination in philosophical or spiritual fields.
Person who has a hard time making a firm decision.
A person who thinks for them self.
Able to originate new ideas.
Seems to know things without conscious reasoning.
A person who is easily annoyed.
Person who is resentful or suspicious of a rival.
Person who is faithful to his or her ideals.
Reluctant to change or accept new ideas.
A person with a hopeful attitude.
Person who keeps things in order.
Continues to do something in spite of difficulties.
Person who looks at the negative side of things.
Person who has a desire for physical activity of some kind.
Proud of abilities and accomplishments.
Person who tends to put things off until later.
Person who is always on the alert against imposition.
A person who has a desire for more responsibility.
Shows a regular flow of movement.
A person who makes cutting remarks.
Person who conceals thoughts and feelings.
Person who has confidence in self and abilities.
A person who is overly conscious of self.
Can control emotions and desires.
Person who maybe fooling their self about something.
Person who is sensitive to criticism.
Implies excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
Person with strong appeals to things pleasing to the eye, ear, taste and touch.
Person lacking in depth of character.
A Person determined to have his or her own way.
Person’s feelings are deliberately excluded from consciousness.
Person who likes to talk.
Has a tendency to become angry readily.
Great desire to hold on to what he or she has.
Person who has a desire to do a lot of different things.
How strongly one works toward reaching goals.
A person with a submissive nature. / Small initial hooks in the writing.
Natural “V” base joining strokes.
Well rounded letter formations.
Long straight final stroke on the end of words.
Small squares or circles at bottom of lower loops.
Needle points on m’s, n’s, r’s and h’s.
Well spaced but small writing.
Long lower loops that run into next line of writing.
Compressed writing.
Greek e’s and figure-eight g’s.
Rounded m’s, n’s, h’s and square top r’s.
Double loops inside small circle letter “o”.
Strong firm stroke endings.
Separated stems on d’s and t’s.
How carefully the person dots the i’s and j’s.
Thickness of down strokes below the baseline.
Retraced stems on d’s and t’s.
T-bars that slant downward.
The general slant of the handwriting.
The heaviness (pressure) of the writing.
Long t-bars.
Wedge “^” shaped m’s and n’s.
Flowing strokes like the “f” when lower loop is reversed.
Long sweeping final strokes and wide spacing between words.
Placement of the t-bar on the stem.
Rounded initial flourishes.
Size of lower loops on all letters except the “p”.
Size of upper loops on all letters except the “d” and “t”.
Weak final strokes.
Short stems on d’s and t’s.
Forward swinging stroke on letters “g”, “j”, and “y”.
Frequent breaks between letters inside words.
Jabs instead of dots on i’s and j’s.
Squared or cramped initial loops.
Small round dots on i’s and j’s.
Compressed circle formations in letters “e”, “o”, “a” and “g”.
General slant of the writing slants upward.
The letter “f” that has about equal upper and lower loops.
Tie strokes in the writing.
General slant of the writing is downward.
Lower loop on the letter “p”.
Height of stem on letters “d” and “t”.
T-bars to the left of the stem.
Initial stroke leading up to a letter.
Large initial circle loops.
Even spacing between stroke combinations.
T-bars that look like knife blades.
Ending loop inside small circle letters like “a” and “o”.
Underscores on signature and other writing.
Height of final top on m’s and n’s is higher than the rest.
T-bars that are bowed upward.
Initial loop inside small circle letters.
Loops on the letters “d” and “t”.
Heavy writing with blots and corrugations.
Strong or heavy writing.
Basin-like t-bars.
Wedge stroke on d’s and t’s.
Very cramped writing.
Openings at the top of small circle letters.
Short tick stroke at beginning of words.
Small hooks on the ending of words.
Long lower loops.
Heaviness of t-bars in relation to the rest of the writing.
Writing strokes that lack definiteness.