What Does Your Handwriting Say About Your Personality?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we explore what you can learn about a person based on handwriting alone. A handwriting analyst for more than 30 years, Dale Roberts of Write Insights analyzed the handwriting of the Curiosity staff and joined us on the podcast to explain his process.
Play along at home while you listen! Write the sentence "I'm truly happy to be here today at the party" in print and in cursive, then follow along during the episode to analyze your handwriting and decide for yourself how accurate it is. Among other things, co-author of "Handwriting Analysis 101" Dale Roberts discusses:
- Why handwriting analysis works and why people are skeptical of its effectiveness.
- The upper, middle, and lower "zones" of handwriting analysis and what they can tell you about a writer's personality.
- How to identify specific personality traits, including but not limited to: the strength of your relationship with your parents; how skeptical, risk-averse, ambitious, or motivated you are; whether a person is stubborn, outspoken, frugal, detail-oriented, or dislikes being in big crowds; and how men and women feel about the opposite sex.
Additional resources discussed:
- Write Insights
- "Handwriting Analysis 101"
- Paper Personality -- Barry Beyerstein
- All About Graphology | Skeptoid Podcast
- Do differences in sex hormones affect handwriting style? Evidence from digit ratio and sex role identity as determinants of the sex of handwriting
- Bad Handwriting: A Gender Thing?
- What Does a Certified Forensic Document Examiner Do?
- Which Presidents Were Left-Handed?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm curious what does your handwriting say about your personality I'm Cody Gough and my handwriting says |
| 0:07.1 | so many wonderful things about my personality Ashley are you sure about that? So this week we're doing something a little bit different. Our guest today is Dale Roberts. |
| 0:26.2 | He is a sought after graphologist or handwriting analyst and co-author of the book, |
| 0:31.8 | Handwriting Analysis 101. |
| 0:34.0 | He has more than 30 years of experience in the practice working at trade shows, conferences, corporate events, |
| 0:39.2 | and private and civic functions. |
| 0:42.2 | And this is where the giant asterisk pops in |
| 0:45.2 | as a giant asterisk handwriting analysis isn't technically science at least I |
| 0:50.9 | wouldn't say it is I think people have heard of handwriting analysis being in courtrooms or maybe being done by doctors |
| 0:58.0 | and that's because there are a bunch of different ways that you can analyze handwriting. |
| 1:02.0 | So here's one type of handwriting analyst. |
| 1:04.0 | What types of handwriting analysis exist? |
| 1:07.1 | So there's medical handwriting analysis, |
| 1:09.2 | and you've probably heard of people with Parkinson's |
| 1:11.2 | having tremors where their handwriting gets all |
| 1:13.6 | wobbly that's actually a legitimate way to diagnose a neurological problem there's |
| 1:19.6 | also forensic document analysis which is also known as Grafonomy. |
| 1:23.6 | It's used to establish the authenticity of documents or signatures or |
| 1:27.6 | like to spot forgeries. |
| 1:29.2 | And that is never used to make personality judgments. |
| 1:31.6 | That's just black or white is this real or |
| 1:34.6 | is this not real and then is admissible in court correct yes it is there's the |
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