Let me see ... your letters to tell you who you are

What shows how writing about our personality?

May the way of writing to reveal the personality and skills? They claim specialists graphics character called graphologists - and millions of people may not be able to get to work because of this controversial practice.

Graphology is not the same thing as judicial handwriting analysis, used to authenticate historical documents or whether a signature is fake.

However, graphologists claim that they can find many aspects of personality and mental state of a person by the way you write them. For example, letters which are obliquely forwards show social person while they are swept backwards show shy nature.

The Canadian psychologist Barry Beierstain explains that "curiously, many who despise astrology and reading the lines of the hand, still believe that the way writing can reveal something about our mental state. After writing, talent and personality are controlled by the brain, the supposed correlation of these three do not seem at all unreasonable. " That is exactly what they claim graphologists. They believe in two manuscript pages can distinguish the auditor from the chef, from the lazy active, the thief from honest.

Although graphology exists from the 19th century, is still used in various situations, among them employment. "I post about 100 people a year in high corporate posts," says executive recruiter Jeffrey Ntesvains. "If graphology was ineffective, I would understand because I would lose my customers. However until now no one has gone. "

But the fact is that scientific studies have failed to find evidence that some letters associated with the personality and psyche. Some social people make large round letters while others do not. Some geniuses have perfect writing, others not. People change jobs, perhaps personality, but do not change their letters. Although graphology were valid, we could identify future terrorists simply reading a manuscript to.

Graphology not alone pseudoscience using employers worldwide. In 2009, an Austrian insurance company looking for candidates for positions sellers and managers, who have had their zodiac sign Capricorn, Taurus, Aquarius, Aries or Leo. In 2011, a Chinese company seeking people who have the zodiac sign Capricorn, Libra and Pisces, excluding those who were Scorpios or Virgos, "because it would be difficult to co-exist with them" by a company representative.

Can these practices for hiring us look like a bad joke, but candidates with appropriate qualifications may be rejected because the employer may rely on a pseudoscience.

Source: newsbeast.gr