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The evaluated traits handwriting analysis courseEvaluated Traits Handwriting Analysis Course

This is a one-of-a-kind advanced trait stroke course that at this time, in this format, you cannot find anywhere else.

Uncovering "hidden" personality traits

Several years ago, in one of my college handwriting analysis classes, one student thoughtfully scrutinized his signature, which looked like this:

Hidden Personality Traits

Suddenly he shook his head and exclaimed: "I'm not going to do this anymore." In response to our questioning looks he explained that he did not like the looped d's and the personality trait of sensitiveness they stood for.

Eddie proclaimed that from this moment forward he would change his d's. I tried to warn him that altering one particular letter could have dire consequences. But he was determined and started eliminating the loops.

Another student asked if this meant that Eddie suddenly would no longer be afraid of criticism. I suggested that we should watch his handwriting carefully from now on. After about two weeks the d's were still carefully retraced but in addition a new stroke had crept into Eddie's writing.

Hidden Personality Traits

The letters E and h suddenly showed rigid initial strokes starting from below the baseline.

The students eagerly consulted their dictionaries and found to their surprise that imagination strong (big loop in the h), plus impulsiveness (forward slant), plus resentment (long rigid initial stroke) equals SENSITIVENESS. Eddie's subconscious had played a trick on him. Not only was he still sensitive, he had now added the trait of resentment.

Without knowledge of evaluated traits Eddie would have falsely assumed that he had conquered sensitiveness while in reality, the insidious fear would have continued to fester inside.

He started a program of global grapho-therapy exercises and in due time changed his overall writing in a more positive way. The students, on the other hand, had learned a memorable lesson, namely, that hidden characteristics in handwriting can be evaluated through combinations of basic traits.

A Few Words about Evaluated Traits

Most handwriting analysts are familiar with basic traits. One letter or stroke symbolizes a certain characteristic. Basic traits go back a long time.

More than a hundred years ago, the French Abbé Jean Hypolyte Michon tried to establish a reliable system of handwriting analysis. He collected thousands of writings and interpreted minute details.

In 1875, he published his most important book Système de Graphologie, in which he tried to prove that certain strokes in handwriting (signes fixes) manifest a specific trait of character. Although he depended on empirical observation alone, he was quite successful in his work and at the time of his death in 1881, his signes fixes numbered in the hundreds.

Some of the (signes fixes) listed in his book were:

  • Initial hooks = acquisitiveness
  • Long, curved finals = generosity
  • Jabbed i-dots = irritability
  • High upper zone = mental interest
  • Rising lines = optimism
  • Even upper/lower loops = organization
  • Slanted writing = emotionality
  • Long finals at end of line = caution
  • Lacking initial strokes = directness
  • Ovals with angular hooks = evasiveness
  • Curved strokes = humor
  • Ovals closed with several loops = deceit

After Michon's death, Jules Crépieux-Jamin became the most important French graphologist. To him we owe the so-called “Theory of Resultants” which distinguishes between primary and secondary traits. In his book, “L’ECRITURE ET LE CARACTERE” (Paris 1889), he theorized that only the primary traits show. The secondary or “resulting” characteristics have to be evaluated through combinations of primary or basic traits.

Crépieux-Jamin called these evaluated traits resultants. Some of the resultants listed in his book L'Écriture Et Le Caracterè are:

  • Weak will + imagination = fear
  • Evasiveness + dishonesty = tendency to steal
  • Sensitiveness + weak will power + self-underestimation = timidity
  • Generosity + responsiveness + enthusiasm = empathy
  • Crépieux-Jamin examined hundreds of handwriting specimens to illustrate how a clustering of basic traits creates a certain evaluated trait.

Crépieux-Jamin believed the procedure of establishing evaluated traits or resultants to be one of the most intriguing aspects of graphology.

Crépieux-Jamin claimed that every characteristic in the personality can be found in the writing, either as a basic or as an evaluated trait.

Today, the concept of evaluated traits has become an important part of most contemporary schools of handwriting analysis.

If you would like to learn to work with evaluated traits, or if you would like to refresh your knowledge about evaluated traits, the Evaluated Traits Course is certainly for you.

Our student comments speak for themselves:

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How the Course is Organized

The Evaluated Traits Course is designed as a home study course. It consists of the following materials:

  • A 2-part Course Manual
  • Part I of the manual lists all the basic traits that are used as components of the evaluated traits listed in Part II
  • Part II lists the evaluated traits.
  • Eighteen self tests (one per lesson)
  • Model answers for all tests
  • A professionally designed Worksheet
  • A beautifully designed diploma will be awarded upon successful completion of the course

Detailed Lesson Information

Part I: BASIC GRAPHOLOGY TRAITS

Lesson One:

Acquisitiveness, covetous, aggressiveness, analytical, argumentativeness, desire for attention, benevolence and goodwill, bluff, broad-mindedness, caution, desire for change, clannish, comprehension.

Lesson Two:

Concentration, condescension, makes unfavorable comparisons, confusion, creativity, cultural interests, cumulative thinking, daydreaming, decisive, deliberate, depth of feeling, attention to details, determination.

Lesson Three:

Dignity, diplomacy, directness, dominating, domineering, enthusiasm, envy, egotism, evasiveness, exaggeration, faultfinding, fear of criticism, fluidity of thinking.

Lesson Four:

Frankness, friendliness, generosity, goals, grudge bearer, tendency toward harassment, humor, imagination, impatience, impulsiveness, inattention to details, indecisiveness, independence.

Lesson Five:

Individualism, initiative, insincerity, intolerance, intuition, investigative thinking, irritability, easily agitated, jealousy, literary leanings, loyalty, faithful, magnanimity and generosity, manual dexterity.

Lesson Six:

Mental orientation, narrow-mindedness, objectiveness, composure and equanimity, optimism, cheerful (being able to feel and spread happiness), organizational ability, originality, ostentation, patience, persistence, pessimism, sorrow, tendency to lament.

Lesson Seven:

Physical orientation, politeness, positiveness, possessiveness, precision, pride, procrastination, repression, resentment, reserved, resignation, resistance, desire for responsibility, responsiveness.

Lesson Eight:

Mental restlessness, physical restlessness, reticence, routinist, sarcasm, secretiveness, selectiveness, self-admiration, self-castigation, self-confidence, self-consciousness, self-control, self-deceit, self-interest.

Lesson Nine:

Self-reliance, self-underestimation, self-effacing, sensitive to criticism, sensual, sensuous, serious, shallow, showmanship, simplification, skepticism, stern, stubborn, superficial thinking.

Lesson Ten:

Suppression, sympathy, tact, talkativeness, temper, tenacity, unjustified accusations, unjustified demands, vanity, desire for variety, vindictive, willpower, withdrawal, yielding.

Part II: EVALUATED TRAITS

Lesson Eleven:

Acquisitive, analytical, argumentative, bluff, broadminded.

Lesson Twelve:

Caution, desire for change, confusion, creativity, criticalness.

Lesson Thirteen:

Defiance, determination, dignity, envy, evasiveness.

Lesson Fourteen:

Extravagance, grudge bearer, humor, impatience, inhibited.

Lesson Fifteen:

Initiative, jealousy, narrow-mindedness, ostentation, patience.

Lesson Sixteen:

Persistence, pessimism, precision, pride, resentment.

Lesson Seventeen:

Routinist, sarcasm, self-confidence, sensitive to criticism.

Lesson Eighteen:

Skepticism, sympathy, temper, desire for variety, withdrawal.

Email UsCourse Student Support

With the Evaluated Traits course students are entitled to 1 hour of FREE e-mail support. You can e-mail course-related questions at any time and expect an answer within 72 hours.

Telephone support is on a charge-per-call basis only and only after prior arrangement of time and payment.

With mail-in questions, a self-addressed, stamped enveloped with the correct postage is required.

Course materials for comprehensive handwriting analysis courseFree Diploma

Upon completion of the course, students may apply for a Diploma as "Certified Handwriting Analysts, Level Two." The diploma test is included with the study materials package. There is no charge for the diploma.

Important! ISHA is not an accredited school and since there currently exists no official licensing agency for graphology in the USA, diplomas are not officially accredited. The diplomas issued by ISHA certify that graduates have successfully completed one of ISHA's study courses and have complied with all the requirements for the completion of course.

Because Dr. Karohs is recognized as a one of the world's foremost graphologists and her courses are unquestionably unmatched by other courses currently available, diplomas issued by ISHA and graduates trained by Dr. Karohs are highly esteemed both in the graphological and corporate world.

Course Cost

Full price for the printed course is $354.00 + $12 shipping charges. The PDF version is only $227.00. | BUY NOW!

If you are eager to get started on this exciting course, submit your application now.

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