We probably still remember as a child being discouraged from allowing our handwriting to slope backwards — We were warned the relaxed letters would be taken as a sign of an idle(懒散的) personality.
According to research from the National Pen Company in the U.S., your handwriting can give away clues about 5,000 different personality traits based on the way you space your letters and how you sign your name. A closer look at someone’s handwriting style can provide you surprising insights about their character and personality, enabling you to come off like a proper Sherlock.
According to the results, the size of someone’s handwriting can determine the type of personality they have. People with small handwriting tend to be shy, bookish and very careful. Tiny letters indicate the writer has somewhat low self esteem but is intelligent, whereas outgoing people who love attention will have larger handwriting. Moving onto the spacing of words, people who leave large gaps between words enjoy their freedom, while people who write words close together can’t stand to be alone.
If handwriting leans to the right, the person is open to new experiences and enjoy meeting new people. If it is to the left, that person tends to keep themselves to themselves. People whose handwriting doesn’t lean in either direction are logical and practical.
The results also claim that a person’s health can be identified from their handwriting, for example, people with high blood pressure tend to have writing that is sometimes heavy and dark, and at other times light.
The process of analyzing handwriting is called graphology( 笔迹学). It is classed as a pseudoscience (伪科学) because there are debates about how accurate it can be at determining psychological and even physical features.
【小题1】Why does the author mention our child experience in Paragraph 1?| A．To arouse readers’ interest in the topic. |
| B．To waken one of our old memories. |
| C．To imply his love in handwriting. |
| D．To put forward an argument. |
| A．Become a handwriting master. |
| B．Act like a detective. |
| C．Work in a proper way. |
| D．Feel like a psychologist. |
| A．How to leave gaps between words. |
| B．How important the handwriting is. |
| C．What the size and space of words suggest. |
| D．Why we have different sizes of handwriting. |
| A．Graphology has been highly recognized. |
| B．Graphology can be helpful in mental healing. |
| C．People hold different ideas to graphology. |
| D．Physical conditions can be determined by handwriting. |
