2015
DOI: 10.3917/anpsy.151.0003
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Alfred Binet and Crépieux-Jamin: Can intelligence be measured scientifically by graphology?

Abstract: On n’a pas assez souligné qu’Alfred Binet (1857-1911), qui a été avocat au barreau de Paris entre 1878 et 1884, a toujours été très intéressé par les questions d’expertise judiciaire en général et par l’analyse graphologique de l’écriture manuelle en particulier. En France, l’intérêt du public pour la graphologie va être mis en lumière dans le domaine judiciaire lors de l’affaire Dreyfus (1894-1895). Binet, devenu un psychologue expérimentaliste de renom, va cependant considérer dans un premier temps que la gr… Show more

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“…One potential reason was that French researchers and the French public in large parts were interested and fascinated by graphology (the idea that the style of handwriting -not its content -allows for insights into the writer's personality or psychological state). Binet initially rejected graphology but subsequently worked on graphology in collaboration with a graphologist in the years in which he also conducted work on intelligence in children (Nicolas, Andrieu, Sanitioso, Vincent, & Murray, 2015). Binet suggested the use of the Binet-Simon intelligence scale or similar measures in the military after reading about the use of tests with mentally ill German soldiers but those ideas gained not the same traction as in the US where a modified form of Binet's and Simon's test was used to systematically screen soldiers for world war I.…”
Section: Alfred Binet and The Measurement Of Intelligencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…One potential reason was that French researchers and the French public in large parts were interested and fascinated by graphology (the idea that the style of handwriting -not its content -allows for insights into the writer's personality or psychological state). Binet initially rejected graphology but subsequently worked on graphology in collaboration with a graphologist in the years in which he also conducted work on intelligence in children (Nicolas, Andrieu, Sanitioso, Vincent, & Murray, 2015). Binet suggested the use of the Binet-Simon intelligence scale or similar measures in the military after reading about the use of tests with mentally ill German soldiers but those ideas gained not the same traction as in the US where a modified form of Binet's and Simon's test was used to systematically screen soldiers for world war I.…”
Section: Alfred Binet and The Measurement Of Intelligencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nicolas, Coubart, & Lubart, 2014). The agenda of this individual psychology was officially set with the appearance in 1896 of the famous article by Binet and Henri (1896) which constituted the founding act of a research project that continued over the following years with polemic works on cephalometry, graphology (Nicolas, Andrieu, Sanitioso, Vincent, & Murray, 2015) and esthesiometry (Nicolas & Makowski, 2016). Thus, as we shall see in the concluding part of this work, thanks to the work on tactile sensitivity performed by Binet at the very start of the 1900s using a compasslike instrument (a type of esthesiometer) which he himself invented, it became possible to propose a purely psychological hypothesis to account for Hyades' results (Hyades & Deniker, 1891).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%