Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting

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Emotional graphology is the branch that studies scriptural accidents that happen in graphism. Curt A. Honroth with the phrase “ The mind doubts, the hand shakes” defined the parallelism found between Sigmund Freud‘s slip of the tongue and the faux pas in writing. He called them lapsus calami.

It is worth noting that a person may form a letter differently depending on where it appears in a word. Analysts like to find an example of each in the writing they are viewing. In some situations, a handwriting expert may also compare the words or phrases used in the two documents. For instance, in U.S. v. Crisp, the state’s handwriting examiner concluded that the questioned document (a note confessing to a bank robbery) was consistent with a sample of the defendant’s handwriting based in part on the fact that the word “tomorrow” was misspelled in the same way on both documents. Allen RE (ed) (1990) The concise Oxford dictionary of current English, 8th edn. Oxford University Press, OxforFor example, two people may form their y’s similarly, but the letters will be a different size. Two other people may have writing of the exact same size, but one of them dots their I’s to the left, and the other to the right.

Signature analysis: Your signature will speak about you more than you can believe. Your signature is the most genuine expression of personality. It reveals virtues, flaws, complexes, ambitions, feelings for inferiority or superiority, capacity for adaptation or tendencies to become lonely. There are many signature models that may help you recognize a few details. Where are the crosses on t’s and dots on i’s? Are the t’s crossed? Is the cross on the t at the top, middle or bottom of the letter? Are the I’s dotted? If so, are they dotted to the left, the centre, or the right of the I? Harrison WR (1966) Suspect documents. Their scientific examination, 2nd edn. Sweet & Maxwell, Londo After they have completed this task, ask students to identify the different parts that combine to make the paragraph: There are two models and both concern Mr Birling. One is suitable for intermediate-level students and the other is for advanced-level students. Plan to select the appropriate model for your students. You may choose to use both intermediate and advanced models in the same class so that your students can access the content at a level appropriate for them. If you do so, you would need to decide how students read the model. You could group students according to level and have them read the models aloud or ask students to read the models independently.Even courts that will accept a handwriting analyst as an expert witness may differ as to the nature and extent of testimony that is permissible from the expert in court. For instance, several cases in various jurisdictions have held that the expert may testify as to the similarities and differences between two handwriting samples, but may not state an ultimate conclusion as to the author’s identity, even if the expert feels confident he or she can make such as conclusion. Nonprofessionals might think that since most people know how to produce handwriting, pretty much anyone can examine it. They might assume that the expert compares such things as the size, slant and spacing of the letters and the connections between them. Indeed, examiners do that. But they also look beyond those features of writing for subtler signs of how the writing was made. Nair, G.H., Rekha, V., Soumya Krishnan, M.: Handwriting Analysis Using Deep Learning Approach for the Detection of Personality Traits. In: Karuppusamy, P., Perikos, I., García Márquez, F.P. (eds) Ubiquitous Intelligent Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 243. Springer, Singapore (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3675-2_40 Handwriting experts are scientists who are normally employed in the documents section of a forensic laboratory.

Yang, G., Lin, B.: Chinese Characters and Personality: an Exploratory Study, PhD dissertation of Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University (1964) Nonetheless, the testimony of a handwriting expert can help bolster a claim that the questioned document was (or was not) written by a particular person, depending on which opinion the expert develops. They will usually have a degree in a scientific discipline and will have undergone a significant period of training and mentoring from experienced experts in the field. Gavrilescu, M., Vizireanu, N.: Predicting the Big Five personality traits from handwriting. EURASIP J. Image Video Process. 57(1), 1–17 (2018) The science of handwriting analysis is based on the presumption that no two people have identical handwriting. It assumes that because each person’s handwriting is unique, handwriting can be matched to an individual by examining subtle details and differences in writing, such as the shapes of letters, the pressure used, and where strokes are begun, ended, or joined.

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Segmentation in forensic terms involves the process of script examination. A common procedure used in the United Kingdom and all around the world involves letter by letter analysis. This supposedly gives the analyst an understanding of the writer’s letter shape formation. In practice however it only does that to a limited extent as the shape of the letter often varies depending on where it is placed within a word as well as what precedes or follows it. Moreover people do not usually think in separate letters. Cheung YL, Leung SC (1989) A comparative approach to the examination of Chinese handwriting part 4 – identification by statistical classification techniques. J Forensic Sci Soc 29:77–8 Some scientific research institutions in the United States have performed several experiments, to study the effect of appraisers' professional skills on handwriting identification results. Statistics show that the accuracy of appraisal result, made by professionals and laymen, varies a lot, but it also highlights that even professional appraisal is prone to certain errors on appraisal conclusion. Forensic Science Organization in the United States took handwriting comparison test experiments in the national crime labs from 1984 to 1989. The experimental results showed that when the handwriting samples of real cases were tested, the result accuracy was 70% for general cases, and for some more difficult cases, the result accuracy was only 40%. Related research institutions in the United States investigated the handwriting inspection accuracy through experiments comparing professionals with college students' ability in handwriting inspection. Experimental results showed that the accuracy of trained professionals is far higher than that of the laymen, but there was nearly 7% error rate. In 2002, research data organized by the United States Department of Justice about identifying true signature handwriting and imitation signature handwriting revealed that the error rate of well-trained professionals was 3.4%, and that of nonprofessional personnel was as high as 19.3%.[ 13] Statistical data from another research organized in 2010 for testing normal handwriting and forged handwriting pointed out that 23.1% of well-trained professionals gave the opinion that they could not ensure whether the tested handwriting was normal or forged in comparison to 8.4% by nonprofessional personnel. The data also pointed out that only 4.3% of professionals gave misleading opinions, while 12.2% of nonprofessionals gave misleading opinions on the case.[ 14] Hence, not only the professional ability of handwriting identification personnel would affect the appraisal result, but also the appraiser's subjective bias would impact it. Therefore, handwriting identification still needs effective program design to limit the impact of the subjective bias of expert witnesses on the appraisal result.[ 15] At present, the main problem faced by appraisers domestically is that the professional quality guarantee system is not perfect. There are many appraisers who do not have solid professional knowledge and rich practical experience. Furthermore, the administration departments grant appraisal rights only to organizations, paying no enough attention to the quality of the appraisers, which has reduced the quality of the appraisers to a certain degree.[ 16]

While investigating and comparing each of the above categories, the analysers also need to consider the following. Whiting F (1986) The reasoning process: an integral component of questioned document examinations. In: Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the American Society of questioned document examiners, Savannah, Georgia When asked the same question, Mohammed noted that changing technology did not doom the field in the past. “When the ballpoint pen came out, people said, ‛That’s the end of handwriting examination,’” he said. People mostly stopped using fountain pens, but handwriting examination survived the transition. Garoot, A., Safar, M., Nobile, N.: Computational graphology applied to handwriting images. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Montreal, Canada, pp. 677–682 (2018) After students have attempted the task, lead a discussion to give students the chance to share their thoughts or any queries they might have about the model.

Let’s explain this in a simple way. When we have pleasant, happy, optimistic thoughts, the brain produces chemical compounds such as endorphins, dopamine, among others. They are substances that cause us feelings of joy and happiness. These chemicals also influence writing and can lead us, for example, to write in an ascending line, open ovals, long writing, the ends of letters to the right and up, among other features. Leung SC, Cheung WL, Fung HT, Cheung YL (1993) A comparative approach to the examination of Chinese handwriting part 5 – qualitative parameters. J Forensic Sci Soc 33:9–19 Hardcastle RA, Thornton D, Totty RN (1986) A computer-based system for classification of handwriting on cheques. J Forensic Sci Soc 26:383–39