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A 5 page paper which examines what, if anything, handwriting reveals from a forensics perspective. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Graphology is the study of character through handwriting analysis. French clergyman Jean Michon first coined the term, but the contention that there is a connection between personality and
handwriting dates back to the early part of the nineteenth century and has continued into the twenty-first century (Furnham and Heaven 288). A graphologist fervently believes that handwriting is
an accurate assessment of an individuals temperament, mental stability, sociability, and moral values, as measured by the size, slant, zone, and pressure of lettering (Furnham and Heaven 288). Psychologists
like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung arrived at similar conclusions, and suggested that "the whole of a persons handwriting" accurately revealed how the person was thinking or feeling at that
particular moment in time (Scanlon and Mauro 46). According to graphologist Andrea McNichol, "Handwriting was a window to both the conscious and subconscious mind... because it immediately shows our
evolving physical and mental state" (Scanlon and Mauro 46). Since the handwriting is tabulated and then converted into a coded personality assessment, many experts conclude that this objectivity renders
it accurate rather than subjective (Furnham and Heaven 289). The FBI has relied extensively upon handwriting analysis to crack criminal cases. Special agent and handwriting analyst Lee Waggoner
explained in the Bureaus Law Enforcement Bulletin, "The basic premise that no two people write exactly alike is a generally accepted tenet within the community of document examiners and
has been accepted by the courts. The physical act of writing is a habit or a reflexive action. As a person writes, his mind is on the words
or message he is trying to communicate. Therefore, in normal writing the movement of the muscles required to push the pen across the page, forming the letters and words,
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