Evaluated 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. About 160 additional evaluated traits have been added to the updated version. An optional computer supplement is available.

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:

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.

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

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.

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:

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:

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.

How the course is organized

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

An optional computer program that automatically searches for and detects evaluated traits is available for an additional $28.00.

The computer supplement is a download version. You will receive detailed download instructions via an e-mail.
(For the computer program, you need Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.)

Detailed lesson information

Part I: Basic 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.

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.

A "Question/Answer" form is provided with the course. I am supporting many students and using this form expedites getting the answers back to the students.

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.

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.

Course Cost

Full price for the printed course is $357.00. 

The pdf version is only $227.00.
There will be no refund for the PDF version.
If you want the computer supplement, add $28.00 to the course price.

Members of Armed Forces and Law Enforcement

An increasing number of members of law enforcement are enrolling in my study courses. If you are interested in enhancing your professional effectiveness through knowledge of handwriting analysis, please contact me for a special personal plan.

Attention international students

"From my correspondence with prospective students in foreign countries I know that many find it impossible to enroll in my courses due to the killer exchange rate. 
To make it easier for them to participate in my study program I am offering students from countries with poor dollar exchange rates a 20% hardship discount. 

Important! Students are responsible themselves for requesting the international discount at the time of ordering. It will not be applied automatically.

Ordering information

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