- Publication date: march 7, 2017 (last update: may 23, 2017) -

Hand Constellations in
Agreeable Personalities!

The Big Five personality dimension Agreeableness reflects individual differences in general concern for social harmony. According the Big Five personality model described by Costa & McCrae (1990) Agreeableness involves of a composition of 6 facets, including: Trust, Straightforwardness, Altruïsm, Compliance, Modesty, and Tendermindedness.
Brain studies have revealed that highly agreeable people show a variety of brain activity compared to subjects who score low for agreeableness. So far, it appears that the field of biometrics has hardly managed to identify significant external body-related biometry correlates with the Big Five personality dimension Agreeableness.

This study demonstrates how in 5 steps a 100% success score is reached in an attempt to discriminate 66 Agreeableness high scorers from 35 Agreeableness low scorers.


NOTE: High resolution version of picture below for the hand in Agreeableness (+ Antagonism)
is available HERE

Phantom pictures describing hand constellations for agreeable personalities (A+) versus antagonistic personalities (A-).

Phantom pictures describing hand constellations for agreeable personalities (A+) versus antagonistic personalities (A-); phantom pictures describing hand constellations for conscientious personalities (C+) versus disinhibited personalities (C-) are available HERE, phantom pictures for the hand in extraverts (E+) vs. introverts (E-) are available HERE, and phantom pictures for the hand in neuroticism (N+) vs. emotional stability (N-) are available HERE.





A report is presented here of a summary of the variations found in the hands of 66 high scorers (who have a NEO PI-R norm score of 7, 8 or 9) & 35 low scorers (who have a NEO PI-R norm score 1, 2 or 3) on the Big Five personality dimension Agreeableness. The major difference between both groups becomes manifest in e.g. an assymetric development of the so-called quadrangle - which involves the palmar zone between the distal transverse crease (heart line) and proximal transverse crease (head line) - plus various patterns which manifest at both outer edges of the quadrangle: e.g. the index finger + hypothenar zone (mount of moon) also play a significant role. The hand features involved also relate to the hand morphology, the dermatoglyphics & the major palmar lines.

The hands of Agreeableness high scorers typically exhibit constellations featured with a long distal crease combined with a short proximal crease, Suwon remnants are frequently present, and/or an extraordinary high positioned radial part of the head line; the typical dermatoglyphics involve various (sometimes complex) loop patterns that manifest with the opening directed at the most near outer edge of the palm (that is: ulnar loops on the hypothenar, distal loops in the ID2 zone and complex radial loops on the index finger); also, a few other dermatoglyphic features and combinations have been identified.

The hands of Agreeableness low scorers typically exhibit constellations featured with a long proximal crease (= dissociated Sydney line) combined with a short proximal crease (e.g. heart line which 'falls' into the head line); a low positioned short index finger featured with a low positioned a-triradius also represents a typical constellation; finally, some other combinations have been identified involving the dermatoglyphics and other aspects of the major transverse crease.

The continuation of the article is a presentation of the typical hand variations between the high scorers (A+) and the low scorers (A-) on the Big Five dimension Agreeableness, and a description of specific variations involving 4 hand factors that made it possible to separate all high scorers from all low scorers, and vice versa. A summary of the prevalence of these hand factors is given for all 101 individual subjects included in this study based on the combination of hand print materials + the Dutch version of the NEO PI-R Big Five personality questionnaire developed by the Costa & McCrae.





STEP 1:

Suwon remnants & hypothenar ulnar/double loops and whorls bare significance
for high scorers on the Big Five personality dimension Agreeableness!


A detailed assessment of the hands of 66 high scorers & 35 low scorers on the Big Five personality dimension Agreeableness has pointed out that the following two hand signs bare very high significance for high scorers (A+):

• A+ hand sign a: Suwon remnants [16 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 24,2%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign b: Hypothenar whorls, double- & ulnar loops [16 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 24,2%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)].

Combining these two hand signs accounts for 29 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 43,9%); a description for each of both hand signs is presented below:

Suwon crease: fusion of 2nd head line that fuses with heart line.


• A+ hand sign a: Suwon remnants:

The concept of the so-called Suwon crease was introduced in a 2010 article titled 'Improved Analysis of Palm Creases', presented by Korean researchers who mapped 3216 volunteers who resided in Suwon (= the capital of the most populous province in South Korea, which surrounds Seoul). The Suwon crease was described by the Korean researchers as follows: "Suwon crease (D): II and III meet accompanied by accessory II" (see picture below).

Suwon crease defined: II and III meet accompanied by accessory II.

In the present study a phenomenon was found which can be described to be between the concept of Suwon creases and extra-radial creases.

At least 3 out of 5 of the following criteria are required to be present in order to allow a hand to score for the presence of a 'Suwon remnant' (this implicates that the presence of a full Suwon crease involving all 5 criteria is not required here, the criteria for a 'Suwon remnant' are slightly different from the Suwon crease itself!):

- Suwon remnant criterium 1: presence of a major crease structure that can serve as the presence of a 2nd proximal transverse crease [head line] located in the upper half of the zone between the thenar crease [life line] and the a-triradius [palmar triradius below the index finger], directed slightly upward towards the thumb side;
- Suwon remnant criterium 2: structure requires to have have enough length: in case of a construction that reminds of a splitting distal transverse crease [heart line] the remnant is required to be longer than the other (upward) branch, and it must reach out beyond the a-triradius;
- Suwon remnant criterium 3: radial side of structure is directed at the zone between the thenar crease and a-triradius, but it does not connected with the life line or other head line (the 2nd head line is required to resemble the concept of a dissociated proximal transverse crease);
- Suwon remnant criterium 4: structure does not concern a line that has a connection with palmar zone above the distal transverse crease below the middle- or ring finger;
- Suwon remnant criterium 5: structure does not look like a normal splitting distal transverse crease.

Additionally, it is also significant to report that in all A+ scorers with a 'Suwon remnant', the featured proximal tranverse crease does not have long length; in the continuation of this article the presence of a short head line in both hands also bares significance (see A+ hand sign c).


Finally, a proper understanding regarding the fundamental principles involved with the concept of the Suwon line is presented in the picture below (e.g pictures describes the fundamental difference compared with the concept of a simian line and Sydney line):

Suwon line: fundamental principles (including the principles involved with simian creases & Sydney lines).


• A+ hand sign b: Hypothenar ulnar loops [LU], double loops [WS] & whorls [W]:

Hypothenar ulnar loops, double loops & whorls. Hypothenar whorls [= whorls on the mount of moon] and hypothenar double loops are not present in any of the Agreeableness low scorers (A-). For the hypothenar ulnar loops an extra requirement was made involving the distance between the two hypothenar triraddi, the requirement was set at a distance larger than 1 cm - so the ulnar loop is required to be considerably 'large'. None of the Agreeableness low scorers (A-) clearly met this criterium.

The results for the Agreeableness high scorers (A+) and low scorers (A-) are as follows:

- Hypothenar whorls (b1): 3 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 4,5%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%);

- Hypothenar double loops (b2): 4 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 6,1%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%);

- Hypothenar 'large' ulnar loops (b3): 9 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 13,5%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%).




STEP 2:

Similarity between Suwon remnants & extraordinary dissociated lower transverse creases, also with distal directed quadrangle assymetries!


A detailed assessment of the hands of 66 high scorers & 35 low scorers on the Big Five personality dimension Agreeableness has pointed out that two aspects involving the head line also bare significance for high scorers (A+):

• A+ hand sign c: Short proximal transverse crease both hands [5 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 7,6%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign d: Proximal tranverse crease approaches a-triradius [4 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 6,1%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)].

Both of the signs can indirectly be recognized to represent a principle that shows a parallel with the finding reported for the 'Suwon remnant' (A+ hand sign a).


Head line length assessment: td.

• A+ hand sign c: Short proximal transverse crease in both hands:

In a short proximal transverse crease (= short head line is required not cross the imaginary td line) the termination point is found on the radial side of the imaginary td line: see the right example in the picture above. Interestingly, in 4 out of 5 A+ scorers with A+ hand sign c the distal crease in at least one hand is long (= long heart line); one can derive from this that most of these hands have a quadrangle that is featured with an asymmteric shape: short head line combined with a long heart line!

NOTICE: Hands with a simian crease construction should get excluded for A+ hand signs 3!


• A+ hand sign d: Proximal transverse crease approaches a-triradius:

Extraordinary dissociated head line. Another interesting phenomonon has been spotted regarding an extraordinary high (distal) located proximal transverse crease - in terms of the vocabulary used in the fields of palmistry this can be described to represent a dissociated head line featured with an extraordinary large distance from the life line, see picture on the right.

A fascinating aspect regarding this feature is the parallel with the 'Suwon remnant' in the sense that A+ hand signs 1 & 4 represent both the manifestation of a transverse crease phenomenon located just below the a-triradius!

NOTICE: Step 1 & 2 (A+ hand signs a to d) have been found in 36 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 54,5%)
versus none of the A- scorers (= 0,0%).




STEP 3:

Hand features involving the index finger!


The third aspect of the hand that is most likely to provide significant clues regarding the Big Five dimension Agreeableness concerns the index finger + it's palmar zone (obviously, this latter zone became already indirectly notified to represent a significant factor in STEP 1 & 2).


The following two aspects involving the palmar aspect of the index finger bare significance for high scorers (A+):

• A+ hand sign e: Dissociated proximal crease only in right hand [6 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 9,1%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign f: ID2 loop both hands (1 vestige is ok) / ID2+3+4 combi in 1 hand [5 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 7,6%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)].


The following four aspects involving the fingerprints on the index finger bare significance for high scorers (A+):

• A+ hand sign g: on index fingers radial whorl combi (= RW + RW) or radial whorl + concentric whorl combi (= RW + CW) [7 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 10,6%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign h: radial loop [RL] on index finger + arch on other finger [5 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 7,6%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign i: ulnar loop [UL] on both index fingers + no more than 6x UL on other fingers [6 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 9,1%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign j: non-extralimital ulnar loop [UL] on 10 fingers + in both hands: dissociated proximal crease or dissociated axial triradius [4 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 6,1%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)].


Combining A+ hand signs a to j identify 53 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 80,3%), versus 0 out of 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%).



STEP 4:

Other hand sign combinations significant voor A+ scorers!


Five other A+ hand signs have been identified:

• A+ hand sign k: arch (A) or tented arch (UTA/RTA) combined with fingerprint pattern with 2 triradii on at least 1 other finger [9 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 13,6%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign l: both palms have the following 3 features: ID4 loop only, proximal crease connected with thenar crease, and normal axial triradius [9 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 13,6%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign m: tented arch (UTA or RTA) on middle finger [7 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 10,6%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign n: radial pocket loop (RPL) on another than index finger [3 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 4,5%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A+ hand sign o: concentric whorl (CW) on same finger in both hands [3 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 4,5%), 0 out 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%)].


Combining A+ hand signs a to o involves 58 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 87,9%), versus 0 out of 35 A- scorers (= 0,0%).




STEP 5a+b+c:

12 hand sign combinations significant for A- scorers!


Finally, the following 12 hand sign combinations have been identified to be signficant for low scorers on the Big Five dimension Agreeableness (A-):

STEP 5a: A- hand signs involing the palmar creases

• A- hand sign p: distal transverse crease falls into proximal transverse crease (without an upward splitting) [5 out of 35 A- scorers (= 14,3%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign q: dissociated Sydney line + short distal crease (does not progress beyond zone between index and middle finger) [5 out of 35 A- scorers (= 14,3%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign r: thenar line progresses beyond axial triradius (but not via a splitting outgoing branch) + axial line is located at the ulnar side of the imaginary tb line [7 out of 35 A- scorers (= 20,0%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign s: short distal crease (does not progress beyond middle finger + not beyond imaginary ab line) [7 out of 35 A- scorers (= 20,0%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];


STEP 5b: A- hand signs involving the dermatoglyphics:

• A- hand sign t: arch fingerprint on index finger without an arch on the thumb + without any radial fingerprint patterns + without ulnar loop on hypothenar [6 out of 35 A- scorers (= 17,1%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign u: hypothenar radial loop + index finger radial loop or complex radial pattern + path of a-line path is high (does not enter the hypothenar radial loop) [5 out of 35 A- scorers (= 14,3%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign v: empty palm (= no palmar loops or whorls) + shifted axial triradius (t' or t") [4 out of 35 A- scorers (= 11,4%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign w: fingerprint on pinky is an arch, double loop or concentric whorl [4 out of 35 A- scorers (= 11,4%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign x: multiple complex fingerprint patterns involving both hands only present on different fingers [4 out of 35 A- scorers (= 11,4%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign y: fingerprint combi involving an ulnar double loop (UDL) or ulnar pocket loop (UPL) on two fingers that are not located next to each other [3 out of 35 A- scorers (= 8,6%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign z: both index fingers have a radial fingerprint pattern of which at least one is a radial loop + at least on palm has a ID3 + ID4 combination [3 out of 35 A- scorers (= 8,6%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign +: at least 9 extralimital fingerprint patterns [3 out of 35 A- scorers (= 8,6%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];

• A- hand sign *: 10 ulnar loops including no more than 3 extralimital patterns + ID3 is missing + hypothenar pattern is missing + thenar pattern is missing + proximal crease connected with thenar crease in at least 1 hand [5 out of 35 A- scorers (= 14,3%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];


STEP 5c: A- hand sign involving the index finger:

• A- hand sign #: constellation in at least 1 hand involving a low set index finger with length that falls short relative to all other fingers + a low set a-triradius (5 out of 6 criteria must be present: [1] 2D:1D < 1,15; [2] 2D:3D < 0,90; [3] 2D:4D < 0,93; [4] 2D:5D < 1,20; [5] imaginary ac line is directed proximal towards radial side; [6] c-triradius has wider distance than b-triradius from the imaginary ad line) [3 out of 35 A- scorers (= 8,6%), 0 out 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%)];


Combining A- hand signs p to # (step 5a, 5b & 5c) involve 35 out of 35 A+ scorers (= 100,0%), versus 0 out of 66 A+ scorers (= 0,0%). And the combination of the 15 A+ hand signs and the 12 A- hand signs make it possible to separate both groups from each other. An overview of the distribution of A+ hand signs & A- hand signs in all 101 subjects is presented inside the table below.




An overview of the distribution of A+ hand signs & A- hand signs
in 66 Agreeableness high scorers (A+) and 35 Agreeableness low scorers (A-):

Data pool: distribution of A+ hand signs & A- hand signs in 66 Agreeableness high scorers (A+) and 35 Agreeableness low scorers (A-).



The position of the personality dimension Neuroticism in the perspective of the full Big Five model (Five Factor Model).

Agreeableness represent a dimension of the Big Five model, a.k.a. the 'Five Factor Model' (FFM).
The model is designed to describe the full 'color-spectrum' of a personality, including:
the classic temperaments, cognitive stability & cognitive flexibility.


Final notification: case studies will become available in the near future; meanwhile you might want to
explore the other four Big Five dimensions Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Neuroticism & Openness!

All Big Five hand charts are presented together inside the article:
Hand sign constellations in the Big Five personality dimensions.


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