The validity of handwriting elements in relation to self-report personality trait measures

Tett, Robert P.; Palmer, Cynthia A.

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“…The most frequent limitations of studies testing the associations between handwriting and personality are following: too small number of participants (i.e. example, Rooij & Hazelzet, 1997;Tett & Palmer, 1997;Wiliams, Berg-Cross & Berg-Cross, 1977); incoherent theories for personality and handwriting as a basis of the analysis; lack of control groups or inappropriate selection of control groups; lack of control of fundamental factors, such as age, sex, intellectual level, health, handedness, type of ball-pen, type of writing basis, incorrect procedure of writing tasks, which may have an impact on handwriting (i.e. Wiliams, Berg-Cross & Berg-Cross, 1977;Furnham, Chamorro-Premuzic & Callahan, 2003;King & Koehler, 2000;Tett & Palmer, 1997).…”

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“…Further, there are associations for graphologists, and in some countries the Ministry of Education officially recognizes academic studies in graphology. Graphological assessment is utilized for personal recruitment and personal selection; however, the scientific research pertaining to handwriting analysis has generated controversial data (Tett & Palmer, 1997), and this is why the assessment of personality using handwriting remains questionable (Bushnell, 1996;Furnham, Chamorro-Premuzic & Callahan, 2003).…”

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Lack of evidence for the assessment of personality traits using handwriting analysis

Gawda¹

2014

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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Background: The aim of the study is to clarify the beliefs and numerous doubts about the possible identification of personality in handwriting. The purpose of the described studies was to show an association between personality traits and handwriting features. The author aimed to verify whether or not there are any specific characteristics of writing in relation to personality traits. | Method: Two different studies have been described. A different number of subjects participated in the investigations and different techniques for personality assessment were used; however, the same set of handwriting features was analyzed in each study. In the first study the NEO-FFI (n=260) was used, while the EPQ-R (n=180) was used in the second study. The graphic characteristics of the handwriting samples were examined by forensic experts. | Results: The correlations between the personality traits and handwriting features were counted. The results showed that there were few significant correlations between handwriting parameters and personality traits, as measured by the NEO-FFI and EPQ-R. | Conclusions: No writing characteristics were specific to personality traits. There is no evidence for assessment of personality on the base of handwriting

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Lack of evidence for the assessment of personality traits using handwriting analysis

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2014

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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“…For instance, two studies failed to confirm correlations between the Big Five personality traits and handwriting [26]. Other studies reported results indicating only a minimal value of handwriting analysis in personality assessment [27][28][29][30]. The lack of association between handwriting gesture and psychopathic personality disorder can be explained by the fact that motor gesture to a degree is independent from personality [13].…”

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The computational analyses of handwriting in individuals with psychopathic personality disorder

Gawda

2019

PLoS ONE

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The main aim of the present study was to examine several parameters of handwriting in order to identify the putative specific patterns of writing associated with psychopathic personality disorder. The hypothesis-generating study was carried out with the use of Mann-Whitney U test to compare two groups of prisoners, without p-value, effect size, and confidence intervals for effect size. The handwriting samples were obtained from two groups of individuals: prisoners diagnosed with psychopathic personality (n = 50), prisoners without psychopathic personality disorder (n = 30). Two groups were matched in terms of intellectual level, age, and education. The examined handwriting samples were identical. To examine graphical parameters such as structure, proportions, density, inter-spaces, and impulse, the computer programs GlobalGraf were used. This software is employed by Polish Forensic Association. The inter-group comparisons of graphical parameters have shown there is no significant difference (95% confidence intervals for the effect sizes included 0, or negative numbers) in handwriting between prisoners with psychopathic personality disorder and prisoners without this disorder. Logistic regression has been calculated to show whether any handwriting patterns allow to predict psychopathic personality disorder. Results indicate that participants with psychopathic personality disorder do not exhibit significant motor impairments manifesting in structural, density, topographic, proportions, letter spacing, and impulse features of handwriting. This suggests, contrary to many beliefs related to graphology, that psychopathic personality cannot be identified on the basis of computational forensic examination of handwriting.

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“…Although references to specific handwriting characteristics are made in the literature, for example, Tett and Palmer (1997), graphologists have warned that the same trait or character may appear in ddferent people under a different combination of signs; thus, it is unwise to take a particular sign out of context (Nezos, 1986), and it may be inappropriate even to attempt to claim universality for them. However, if only composites of many signs are employed, as was the case with the first attempt in the present study, the sheer complexity of the data render them unsuitable for objective computational analyses (Lockowandt, 1992), so attempts to assess graphological findings using conventional statistical methodology may be doomed to failure.…”

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“…Tett and Palmer (1997) anal~sed 49 handwriting samples for 30 elements (slant, T-crossing, I-dotting, etc. ) and correlated the findings with 15 personality traits as assessed on the Jackson Personality Inventory-Revised and obtained from the same individuals.…”

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Examination Performance and Graphological Analysis of Students' Handwriting

Lowis

Mooney

2001

Percept Mot Skills

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Research has yielded mixed support for graphological claims. The present study was designed to see whether specific components of students' handwriting were related to personality traits associated with achievement in written examinations. If aspects were identified that could be used to predict future academic performance, the findings would not only be of interest to graphologists but would be invaluable to both student and tutor in a teaching environment. In a blind trial, 100 handwriting samples from first-year scripts were analysed for the presence or absence of 12 graphological characteristics deemed to be relevant for academic performance, and each of these aspects was tested for association with the grade points awarded. Statistically significant differences were found for two of the 12 characteristics: "carefulness" and "constancy." Also, measurements of individual letters indicated that consistent slant was significantly associated with high grade points, whereas upright or mixed writing was not. These attributes appeared to be generally related to readability and aesthetic quality. Although such aspects might influence the grading of scripts by teachers, typed versions received similar grades to those awarded for the handwritten versions.

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The validity of handwriting elements in relation to self-report personality trait measures

Cited by 42 publications

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Lack of evidence for the assessment of personality traits using handwriting analysis

Lack of evidence for the assessment of personality traits using handwriting analysis

The computational analyses of handwriting in individuals with psychopathic personality disorder

Examination Performance and Graphological Analysis of Students' Handwriting

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