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June Etta Downey was an American psychologist who studied personality and handwriting. Downey was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, where she received her degree in Greek and Latin from the University of Wyoming. Throughout her life Downey wrote seven books and over seventy articles. Included in this work, Downey developed the Individual Will-Temperament Test, which was one of the first tests to evaluate character traits separately from intellectual capacity and the first to use psychographic methods for interpretation.In addition to her many published works, Downey held several prestigious positions. She chaired the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Wyoming and in doing so became the first woman to hold a head position at a state university. She was appointed to the American Psychological Association Council and became a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. July 1875 – 11. October 1932
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“The relation of the inner word to the outer visible one has long interested psychologists.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 152-153
about Handwriting

“If it should be shown further that this difference cuts through all the mental activities of the human being, progress would have been made in the difficult matter of the classification of mental types.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 151
about Handwriting

“Variation in the amplitude of written characters involves doubtless many important considerations relative to the facilitation and inhibition of movement.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 151
about Handwriting

“In any case it is evident that there is a psychology as well as a sociology of handwriting. Tremendously complicated as the problem of diagnosis of individual traits from those tiny strokes of the pen appears, it is yet a legitimate problem of science; for the more progress psychology makes, the more evident it becomes that there is not a mode of expression which is not rooted to its finest detail in the complex psycho-physical organism. Meanwhile, it is fortunate that the task of identifying graphic signs should not be left wholly to the intuitions of the graphologist. Experimental work that seeks to induce variation in writing through a control of outer conditions must in time correlate certain definite variations in conditions with variation in such aspects of writing as size, speed, accuracy in alignment, inequality of control and the like.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 150-151
about Handwriting

“A resume of the work that has already been done has perhaps its value at the present time.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 148
about Handwriting

“Writing with attention preoccupied or distracted results variously in the enlargement or dwarfing of characters, an alternative result that seems to depend upon deep-seated tendencies of the individual.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 151
about Handwriting

“Doubtless the day is far in the future when we shall be able to solve such historical enigmas.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 156

“Speculation must wait upon the facts.”

June Downey

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 153

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