Detecting Honest People's Lies in Handwriting The Power of the Ten Commandments and Internalized Ethical Values

摘要

Can managers detect honest people's lies in a handwritten message? In this article, I will briefly discuss graphology and a basic model of interpersonal communi-cation. I will then develop a fundamental theoretical framework of eight principles for detecting lies based on the basic communication model, handwriting analyses, and the following assumptions: For most people, it is easier to tell the truth than to tell lies. This applies to handwritings also. When most honest people lie, they try to hide their stressful emotions in the encoding process. As a conse-quence, they deviate from their own normal writing and violate their own personal moral standards. Interestingly enough, the art or science of detecting a lie in a handwritten sample is to focus not on what they write, but on how they write it. These 24 exhibits (cases) written in 11 lan-guages—used in different parts of the world—help man-agers apply this important theoretical framework of interpersonal communication, understand the encoding process, pinpoint these sudden emotional changes, decode handwritten messages, unlock the secrets, reveal the mes-sage's true meanings, and detect people's lies.