Writing Style

How very true: my writing changed dramatically when I was suffering a lot of back pain - it turned into an ugly, illegible mess! The thing to remember with graphology is that is much more vague than real psychology: the former just looks at one aspect of your interaction with the world, whereas the latter looks at everything from your past, your experience and your inner feelings to help you understand better and come to terms with things. Graphology should really be separated into a new pseudo-science, along with a lot of other half-psychology pseudo-sciences that are currently all bundled under one title. (My partner's a psychologist, so I could go on about this for hours, lol!)

Thank you so much for labelling this intriguing type of study. I'm a fan of personality tests in general, to study the external manifestations of indevidual personalities is a facinating hobby. I agree about people predominantly typing, it's nice and convenient but there was so much charm and personality in hand written communications. I personally keep a written daily journal, it has not only helped to pilish my handwriting but there is something so cathardic about writing. Also a recent endeavor that I would recommend to everyone is to have a pen pal that you only send handwritten letters to... Good comment, thank you. :)

I found another article to. Even I'm not a psychologist, those lines of article describe some important thing that I want to know. I think graphology not just about people's personality, but also about people's physical condition at the time they write. For example, if people write some sentences and make a descending line could became indication that those people is in fatigue condition. Also when people write a paragraph with less "dot" then a "comma", it could indicate they write it with some ambition. I think my last sentence about dots and commas could be applied not only in hand writing but also on typing style. So in an advance time like now, those science still can be developed from "writing style" to "typing style".

Hmm.. if you say so, make me think even more. I wonder if there is some connection or relativity about a country culture and their community writing style. I mean like this, in Oriental region such as Japan, China or Korea, they have same writing style, those words they write also different than other country using alphabet, they use Kanji which is tend to be more straight line, almost no curve exist. Is that mean those country also have culture of objectivity, straight forward, and less artistic? Let's compare it with India that write using Hindu word which have more curve than a straight line, is that also mean India's people tend to have more artistic style more than Japanese person?

Hmm...that's a good point. I really don't know too much about the language and writing style of India, but in my opinion I think the Chinese and Japanese languages are very artistic to begin with. I can't even fathom using depictions as beautiful as those to describe words and sentences and phrases. So I think part of it has to do with how you view things and what you consider "art" and "artistic". I consider lots of old ruins to be artistic and sculptures and stuff to be beautiful even though the experts agree with my opinion.

About Kanji letter used in Japan, i remember a little thing about it. I forget the source, but i still remember that Kanji letter is not only described as a letter but also mean as a symbol. For example a word "human", in our alphabetical style we write H-U-M-A-N, but in Kanji it is not like that, it will only need one word that represent human itself. I think that mean Japanese culture basically a practical culture, less talk do more. Different with that, in Hindu their alphabet not only list of nothing like our A-B-C-D.., but they list of word is based on a story. Can you imagine that, their A-B-C itself contain a story. This is for example, ours is A-B-C-D-E, Hindu's is Ha-Na-Ca-Ra-Ka, in those language mean "There are a messenger", followed by Da-Ta-Sa-Wa-La which mean "Those messenger have a quarrel with King's soldier", and so on. It is very interesting that we know how artistic culture of India, their word list itself a story. For your information I'm not Indian & not Japanese, but I respect their culture. the same as I respect my country's culture.

For me, I think if we could understand the root of this science, it is less complex than we thought. Sorry for all psychologist, I don't mean to down-grade this science, just my opinion, correct me if I'm wrong. Back again, it's about human, we are human. That's mean this science basic is to understand ourselves. Not just from writing, everything on our body or the way we make a move contain information about our self. From hair shape, face, our step, everything reveal our inner personality.

Yeah you right, it is like a trace, even no information about the writing, we could at least guess who was wrote it. I think it is important and good thing if your college teach those science as a study, because journalism truly close to all the thing about writing. Try suggested that to your college, it is an important issue I think.

It is like never ending lesson, because every generation born always bring a new writing style. So basically writing style is changing time to time, just like people's civilization. That means graphology must follow this change, the scientist must learn it simultaneously & continuously.

To understand this science we must back to its basic. This science is to learn about human, we can simplify this by an example of a teenager. He learn to know about him self, so he try to find out by searching on to his friends or other community. With his experience he discover some connection about nerd & book, cheerleader & beauty, lazy & fatness, etc. He finally generalized all of those experience into some blocks. It is the same way like graphology, some science learn it time to time to find connection between personality & writing style. Of course they still have limit about their knowledge, so it is not really wise to believe it 100 percent.

exactly, nothing is ever 100%. Actually if it reminded me of any one thing it would probally be stereotypes. In the sense that just because a certain race of people does something doesnt mean it should become the premise of actions for that race. Just because someone rights neat, can really teach nothing about there personal demeanor.

The more you learn it the more interesting. It is so complex but actually fun thing to learn. We can also practicing it by looking on other people signature. Signature is stronger than ordinary hand writing, because it is like a stamp of our self. Different with ordinary writing, when people make a signature they'll give their best effort to make it look perfect. If we wanna know how people's personality at the best condition, look their signature.

As I said before, graphology not only interpret one sector such as word or alphabet they wrote, but also very complex side. So the analyzer must not only look the writing boldly, but he must also consider about the object. Psychologist must see people and their writing as a whole union, not part by part.

Sorry to disappoint you, the title is ambiguous indeed. But it is still nice thing to talk about isn't it. You sure knew something about it, I guess you have psychologist relation on your family or your friend.

Wow, how surprising my discussion a year ago still has a new response.... Well, for now I don't remember well where did I find those article. By the way, some people called it graphology, some branch of psychology science learn about writing style, may be if you have a spare time, you could check or search wikipedia about that article. It's quite interesting if you can learn deeply about it, can be very helpful to determine small fragment of other people's psychology. It's surely come in handy if you are in the human resource department, that knowledge will ease you to pick the right candidate of new employee.

Wow, you know a professor learning that science? So that mean you definitely agree with a statement of connection between writing style & personality. By the way, if you meet that professor again please ask this question, "Personality change can affect writing style or even vice versa, writing style changes can affect people personality?" I'm really curious about this.

That is a new branch science? Because I don't really know psychology that much, i just read an article and get curious about it. Is it the same branch which learn about connection between human anatomy and personality? Wow, science surely develop to a higher level quickly these days. I find those article in the newspaper so I don't have link, sorry. But if you have time may be you can googling it.

Of course we don't need to 100 percent believe all about it, because I still believe every people is unique. We can't just generalized all people on their writing style. It is the same thing to if we talk about zodiac, yeah it is more familiar than a graphology, but the root of this kind of science is the same, to generalize people to some block. Anyway, it is still important science to learn as long as we are open to it.

This discussion only started from my curiousity, for me indeed is true, I don't know if only coincidence or what, my writing style is tend to be a straight liner. I make "i" letter which the dot is very close to the stern. So that mean I'm an objective person & a precise minded person, with my friends opinion it is true my personality is definitely that. What yours? is it tend to right, left, or straight?

Hmm.. if you want it, i suggest you meet a real psychologist, they'll give you an accurate whole science to lectured. But for me, I'm just an observer that start this discusiion from my curioussity. But I do know a little about this science basic. There are some statement like this: How people write letter "i", the closer they write "dot" from its "stern" means the more precise they usually work. How people write letter "t", the higher they write horizontal line from its vertical line means the more confident they have. How people write a paragraph, if you find a paragraph that only contain few sentences, or every one sentence considered as a very long one, even some sentence contain less "commas" for interlude. It means the writer is an ambitious one. How people globally write, if their words careen to right mean they are an artistic person, if their words careen to left mean they are a labile person, if it's just straight style mean they are a people based on logic. How people writing progress, if they're progressing writing left to right and their line is descending, it's mean those people are have a depression or may be fatigue. Vice versa of that, it's mean those people are full of spirit.

Yeah, may be a put a wrong title there. It surely make some bias if I use that title. Anyway, after I've googling for some time, i found many article related to this topic, and I also know that it is true this writing analyze has already become another branch of psychology called graphology. Indeed it is a very nice thing to discuss about. However, like some of the comment says, nowadays people doesn't write anymore, they change their life style from a writer to a typist. But we still can find those writing in their signature. So, it has still good probability to apply those science today.