Handwriting psychology is a subject that judges the writer's personality and psychological state through analysis and research according to the unique handwriting characteristics reflected by the writer's writing skills and habits.
Although there were some understandings about calligraphy in ancient China, such as "characters are like people", "people are not as good as characters", "seeing characters as people" and "connecting hearts and hands", there was a lack of in-depth research.
Handwriting psychology originated in Europe and has a history of more than 200 years. Now it is a very mature subject in European and American countries, and it is also found in universities. It is widely used in talent recruitment, job promotion, career planning, psychological counseling, marriage and love intermediary and other fields.
Especially in the field of talent recruitment, more than 80% companies in Germany, Italy and other countries, and more than 50% companies in Israel, France and other countries have to pass the handwriting psychological test when recruiting talents, and its test effect is nearly twice as high as that of a simple interview or other personality tests.
Graphology is widely used in the field of judicial inspection in China, but handwriting identification studies who wrote the handwriting, which belongs to the category of handwriting inspection.
Handwriting psychology, focusing on handwriting analysis, studies what kind of people write handwriting. It uses the principle of handwriting psychology to judge the writer's personality and psychological state through the unique handwriting characteristics displayed by people in the unconscious state when writing.
Handwriting analysis mainly starts from four aspects of handwriting, finds out the typical handwriting characteristics that can reflect the writer's writing habits, which are repetitive and violate the writing norms, and comprehensively analyzes and refines them to accurately judge the writer's personality and psychological characteristics.
At present, some large domestic companies have begun to apply handwriting psychology in personnel departments, but it has not been popularized.
Famous cases of the application of handwriting psychology;
An American automobile engine parts company has been repeatedly stolen and lost millions of dollars a year. The general manager of the company asked Andre, a famous American handwriting expert and director of the consulting office of the International Handwriting Society, to help solve the case. Andre asked the boss to let every employee write a report about the theft. After carefully analyzing the handwriting of each report, he said, "You should pay attention to Deputy General Manager X of your company. His handwriting is disguised." So the security guards closely monitored him. Soon, when the vice president was selling stolen parts in a neighboring state, he was caught with all the stolen goods, and the inter-state case was solved in one fell swoop. Afterwards, Andre explained: "When people are writing, it is not so much the hand that is writing as the brain. The various forms of fingertip movement are just an undisguised expression of people's inner world unconsciously. "
This is a case of insight into the writer's psychological characteristics through handwriting characteristics. Let's look at a case of seeing the physiological characteristics of the writer through the characteristics of handwriting.
At the end of Ming Dynasty, there was a famous doctor named Fu Shan in Yangqu. According to the notes of celebrities in the Qing Dynasty, "Mr. Fu is proficient in general medicine", with profound knowledge and good calligraphy. His eldest son is also good at calligraphy, and the book is forced to be Xiao (very similar), and outsiders cannot argue. One day, his eldest son put the book on his desk to check his father's argument. Fu Shan saw it, looked at it, thought it was written by him, and sighed: "I have lost my breath and am dying!" His eldest son sneered at this in private. More than a month later, his eldest son died of illness. According to clinical experience, a doctor and calligrapher judged that a person's physical function was out of order, leading to heart failure, thus accurately predicting his death.