Do people with similar handwriting have similar personalities?

[rumguy]

I honestly don't know...

[rock]

1. There are adherents to that theory

It's called graphology. There is little scientic evidence that it works. But then the lie detector (polygraph) doesn't either.

[Blue-Jay]

2. I had my handwriting analyzed once.

Most of what was said was spot-on. Then again, it could've been the same thing as a "cold reading" that pseudo-psychics do.

Who knows? I know people with terrible handwriting who are the most focused, organized people in the world. Vice versa, as well.

[flaminbats]

3. Would this mean that right-handers have one personality..

and lefties have another?

[starroute]

4. Certain things are pretty obvious

People with flamboyant handwriting tends to have major egos. People with many unconventional letter forms tends to be artistic and creative. People who knot their o's and a's into tight little circles tend to be anal-retentive. And so forth.

The one handwriting I never saw an explanation for, though, was my mother's. It it was extremely neat, extremely regular -- and almost totally unreadable.