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Handwriting Analysis—Variability in Script and Flexibility

Variability in script as discerned through handwriting analysis suggests a flexible personality. I’ve been asked before if it’s possible to change your handwriting, and what it means if your handwriting varies a lot. To the untrained eye, several handwriting samples by an adaptable individual, someone who prides herself on multiple

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Digital Lie Detector Detects Dishonesty On-line

A group of four academics claims to have developed a digital lie detector that is 70% accurate. Evidently, it can be used to scan social media, e-mail and text communications, and more. The group developed a text analytic algorithm that involves word usage, in part, to detect fraud and dishonesty:

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Face Analyzing Technology Possibly Identifies Terrorists

A facial personality profiling technology company claims to be able to evaluate specific personality traits with 80% accuracy, including those that help to identify terrorists. They allegedly identified nine of the eleven Paris (11-13-2015 attack) terrorists “after the fact as potential terrorists with no prior knowledge,” while only three of

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Revealed: Handwriting Analysis Measures Perfectionism

Perfectionism, or the need to be perfect, can be an immobilizing personality trait in excess and handwriting analysis effectively measures it. A modest amount of this trait won’t hurt your productivity and keep you from reaching success, but according to this article, “The all-or-nothing, impossibly high standards perfectionists set for

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Personality Analysis Secret: How to Quickly Read Someone

Quickly identifying someone’s core personality traits isn’t easy, even for the shrewdest judge of character. But there’s a way to quickly get an idea of a person’s character. According to a study referred to in this article, asking someone’s opinion about other people exposes a lot about their own personality. “The

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Rationalization: Look Out For This Pernicious Trait to Limit Your Risk

Rationalization is a universal human trait and most people don’t have it in excess. Occasionally explaining away behavior such as, “…it’s okay to have extra helpings at dinner tonight because I’m going to the gym tomorrow…” or “…I’ll postpone that important task because it would be better completed tomorrow…” isn’t

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Warning About Decision-making: The Misconception of Choice

The power of choice is sometimes yours, and sometimes not. The erroneous belief that you’re in absolute conscious control of your fate is as outlandish as believing you will live forever. I’m all for inspiration—I generate inspiration every day—but put aside the rhetoric spewed by motivational speakers for a moment

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How to Negotiate with a Narcissist or Psychopath

Narcissists and psychopaths can be very charming and persuasive and there is no shortage of these types of undesirables in the world. You’re likely to encounter such jerks regularly in business or your personal life and you need a concrete plan of action to limit your risk. One of the

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A Reliable Supplement to Trusting Your Gut

Trusting your gut as a consistent means of discerning the truth takes practice. It’s rare that someone’s gut instinct is so powerful, and they trust it so implicitly, that they’re seldom wrong. Most people struggle with the intermittent battle between intuition and reason, with the power of the subconscious mind

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Handwriting Analysis and IQ Score–Q & A

Handwriting analysis is one of my favorite ways to analyze personality but it won’t tell you your IQ score. Question: “Does my terrible handwriting have anything to do with a lower IQ?” Answer: No, it doesn’t. Untrained in handwriting analysis, what you interpret to be terrible handwriting may not include

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