Editing Projective test (section)

===Graphology===
{{Main|Graphology}}
Graphology is the [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]]<ref name='Graph_Beyer_PBS'>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3282_bbeyerstein.html |title=Barry Beyerstein Q&A |access-date=2008-02-22 |work=Ask the Scientists |publisher=Scientific American Frontiers }} "they simply interpret the way we form these various features on the page in much the same way ancient oracles interpreted the entrails of oxen or smoke in the air. i.e., it's a kind of magical divination or fortune telling where 'like begets like'".</ref> analysis of the physical characteristics and patterns of [[handwriting]] purporting to be able to identify the writer, indicating psychological state at the time of writing, or evaluating personality characteristics.<ref name="definition">{{citation | title=Longman Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry | publisher=Longman Group United Kingdom | year=1983 }}</ref>

Graphology has been controversial for more than a century. Although supporters point to the [[anecdotal evidence]] of positive testimonials as a reason to use it for personality evaluation, most empirical studies fail to show the validity claimed by its supporters.<ref>{{Citation
 | last1 = Driver
 | first1 = Russel H.
 | first2 = M. Ronald
 | last2 = Buckley
 | first3 = Dwight D.
 | last3 = Frink
 | title = Should We Write Off Graphology?
 | journal = International Journal of Selection and Assessment
 | publisher = Blackwell Publishing Ltd
 | issn = 1468-2389
 | volume = 4
 | issue = 2
 | pages = 78–86
 | date = April 1996
 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-2389.1996.tb00062.x
 | postscript = . }}</ref><ref name="Furnham1987">
{{Citation
 | last =Furnham
 | first = Adrian
| author2 = Barrie Gunter
 | title = Graphology and Personality: Another Failure to Validate Graphological Analysis.
 | journal = Personality and Individual Differences
 | volume = 8
 | issue = 3
 | pages = 433–435
 | year = 1987
 | doi = 10.1016/0191-8869(87)90045-6
 | postscript =. }}
</ref>

The Teste Palográfico (Palographic Test) is a personality test used frequently in Brazil.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.crpsp.org/uploads/impresso/782/WiElmGgKaBYXPT1JBwaVSZgwlIorYSj7.pdf|title=CONVERSANDO COM O PSICÓLOGO - Detran esclarece sobre avaliação psicológica para obtenção de cnh [TALKING TO THE PSYCHOLOGIST - Traffic Department explains about psychological assessment to obtain a driver's license]|first1=Denise|last1=Farah|date=September 30, 2009|journal=JORNAL psi|volume=162|pages=10–11|via=crpsp.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1677-04712020000400007&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt|title=Palographic test: Challenges for training in psychological evaluation|first1=Eduarda Lehmann|last1=Bannach|first2=Alessandra Sant'Anna|last2=Bianchi|date=July 18, 2020|journal=Avaliação Psicológica|volume=19|issue=4|pages=400–408|via=pepsic.bvsalud.org|doi=10.15689/ap.2020.1904.18487.06|s2cid=234965850|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>"O TESTE PALOGRÁFICO DO PROF. ESCALA" ([THE PALOGGRAPHIC/PALOGRAPHIC TEST OF PROF. ESCALA - January 6, 1961]) - "FGV" Digital Library - Brazil</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/abpt/article/view/14641|title=O teste palográfico do Prof. Escala|first1=Agostinho|last1=Minicucci|first2=Iron Ramos de|last2=Bastos|date=January 6, 1961|journal=Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicotécnica|volume=13|issue=1|pages=17–22|via=bibliotecadigital.fgv.br}}</ref><ref>"Escritura y Personalidad – do prof. A. Vels – Luis Miracle – Editor." ("Escritura y Personalidad. Las Bases Científicas De La Grafología" | "Hardcover – January 1, 1961 by Augusto Vels (Author)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Escritura-Personalidad-Bases-Cient%C3%ADficas-Grafolog%C3%ADa/dp/B0047W4FKS|title=Escritura y Personalidad. Las Bases Científicas De La Grafología|first=Augusto|last=Vels|date=January 1, 1961|publisher=Luis Miracle |via=Amazon}}</ref>