Although graphology had some support in the scientific community before the mid-twentieth century, more recent research rejects the validity of graphology as a tool to assess personality and job performance. Today it is considered to be a pseudoscience.

What is the science of studying handwriting called?

It is called 'graphology'. The first syllable sounds like the word 'graph' and the following 'o' is like the 'o' in 'hot', 'lot' and 'pot'. The word is pronounced 'gra-Fo-le-ji' with the stress on the second syllable. The word comes from the Greek 'grapho' meaning 'writing' and 'logos' meaning 'words'.

How correct is graphology?

The truth is that graphology is an “observational science”. That means there is no cold, hard, evidence that describes the 99.9% accuracy of the results, nor is there a guarantee that every person behaves the same way as their script says they do.