Graphology

About: Graphology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 214 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2492 citations.

Curious Self-Evidence: Graphology and Gusto in Marianne Moore's Critical Prose

Abstract: the English and Theatre Studies program at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Sage Modernism: Character, Pragmatism, and the Therapeutic Imagination, which argues that the pragmatist conversion of character from a moral to a psychological category had important consequences for modernist poetry and the diffusion of therapeutic culture. Curious Self-Evidence: Graphology and Gusto in Marianne Moore’s Critical Prose

Emotion Predictor Using Social Media Text and Graphology

Abstract: Social media is a growing source of data and Social Media activities such as WhatsApp group communications have opened up a myriad of data and information exchange - especially amongst the modern student community. On an average, they tend to express their feelings and opinions far more freely amongst their net cronies than anywhere else. In this paper, the target is to evaluate the emotional state of students within such a group, by extracting hidden nuances through usage of words revealed by text analytic measures. The study is further augmented with records of personal statistics. Some of these, such as age, educational background and social status, help to categorize the participants for ease of comparative analysis at a later stage. The rest, gleaned through collecting signatures and handwritten scripts of participants, support the discipline of graphology, for delving into the depths of the writer's character traits. Overall, the primary goal is to propose a Case Based Reasoner (CBR) to hold all the details of each student as individual cases with attached sentiment polarity scores reflecting the personal positivity or negativity. The Case Base needs to undergo incremental learning, until the model is judged to have gained sufficient experience to start predicting polarities on its own.

The Perceived Efficacy of Various "Future-ologies" and Complementary Medicine

Abstract: Objectives: To examine the relationship between beliefs in ways of telling the future (astrology, graphology, palmistry etc) and beliefs in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Design: Participants completed a short questionnaire that requested that they rate the efficacy of 8 CAM therapies along with 12 other ways of predicting the future ranging from the well known and established (astrology) to the less well known (tasseography, oneiromancy). Short descriptions of each were provided. They also answered four attitude statements on science as applied to medicine. Subjects: Two hundred three (130 female, 73 male) adult Britains obtained from a university subject panel served as unpaid volunteer subjects. Results: CAM therapies were judged as modestly effective and most of the other "-ologies" ineffective. Further analysis confirmed two clear factors with the different methods loading on two different factors. Regressions showed females who were less concerned with scientific evaluations but more ...

A ‘Multimodal Ecology of Text’ in Advanced Level English Language examinations? The incorporation of graphology and ‘embodied’ facsimile texts in unit test papers and their assessment since 2001

Abstract: In this paper we compare the representation of texts in a sample of Advanced Level English Language examination papers set over the past decade in order to explore the changes in ‘what constitutes English and its assessment’. Prior to the year 2000, texts used in most A Level Language examination papers were usually typeset in a word processed format stripped of original font, layout, accompanying images, and colour, and devoid of the material marks of the texts' ‘history’ and materiality. From 2001, the texts for AQA B examination papers1 have been reproduced in facsimile form to include the original graphology used. This shift in production in the materiality of embodiment has led to a corresponding shift in assessment in the codes of recognition of what constitutes English text, and what counts as English response. The sample of texts that we discuss present an ‘ecology of text’ and an ‘ecology of texts and literacy practices’ on a ‘continuum of multimodality’: from the heavily edited, word processed, linguistically circumscribed texts of the 1990s examination papers, through to the more visually-dependent texts of 2004 with their manner of writing, typographic detail, colour, and sometimes even complete with creases and stains. Taking a multimodal approach to these texts, we discuss the implications of this change for what is being required of students analysing texts for examination assessment and more broadly for the subject ‘English’ - ‘what English is’. We also consider how this shift problematizes the English work of students, teachers, examiners, and the institutions in which these agents operate.

Handwriting and Creativity

Abstract: Graphology, which exists both as art and as science, is the analysis of handwriting. Handwriting is a complex, overlearned motor skill in which biomechanical and cognitive processes contribute to the spatial form and the kinematic features of the handwritten product. In addition to communicating the meanings of written words, graphology was founded on the dubious premise that handwriting can express features of a person's personality, mentality, and capability. While graphology as it exists is at best a weak method for inferring personality traits and predicting future performance, techniques such as the Roman–Anthony Psychogram do make it possible to generate an overall view of the personality, and make possible inferences about cognitive and affective mental structure.