Hand Reading Research & Scientific Hand Analysis!

- Hand Expertise: major sections -

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Scientific hand analysis:
the rise of 'Multi-Perspective Hand Reading'!

In 25 years a wide spectrum of hand research studies has accumulated into a scientific hand reading approach, where the major guideline underlines the need for combining multiple dimensions of the hand. The implication is that a solid hand diagnosis usually requires the presence of multiple hand signs in various perspective of the hand.

Unfortunately, this insight leaves hardly any space open for the working hypothesis used in classic palmistry: the (outdated) belief that every single hand sign bares potential for specific meaning, which is likely just a myth - though it continues being cherished on superstitious grounds, anecdotal evidence, selective observations, and other psychological phenomena such as the Forer-effect (a.k.a. Barnum-effect).

Multi-Perspective Hand Reading was introduced in 2011 and coined as a brand new conceptual term; since then the concept has been used to illustrate that our hands tend to show correlations with psychological conditions similar to those described for medical conditions inside the academic scientific literature.

Multi-Perspective Hand Reading can be recognized to represent the very first hand analysis system around the world that was build entirely on top of a (scientific) empirical research, featured with a validation process involving statistical analysis.

This advanced hand reading concept is explored through 9 separate perspectives of the hand: (1) hand behaviors, (2) hand motorics, (3) hand shape, (4) palm shape, (5) finger shapes, (6) nails, (7) skin, (8) dermatoglyphics & (9) lines. Each of these nine levels of the hand is also featured in the hand sign tutor.

Discover, explore & learn how to read hands properly:

- Multi-Perspective Hand Reading -

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- A recommendation for further exploring -

Discover & explore the language of the hand featured with hand charts for a wide range of major diagnostic themes, involving e.g.:

- psychology: the General Factor of Personality & Big Five dimensions;
- psychiatry: autistic spectrum disorder & schizophrenia;
- medical problems: diabetes melitus, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis;
- genetic defects: Marfan syndrome, Down syndrome, fragile-X syndrome + others.

- Introduced in 2016 -

A major item on this site represents the Scientific Hand Charts Collection, which provides the opportunity to explore the major principle used in Multi-Perspective Hand Reading.

The collection includes hand charts involving the Big Five personality dimensions Neuroticism, Opennes, Extraversion Agreeableness & Conscientiousness; you might want to use the summary article: Hand Charts for the Big Five personality dimensions.

• Finally, it can be interesting to consider the findings in the perspective of concepts & theories used in various hand reading systems (e.g. the roots of ancient Chinese medical palm reading & classic Indian predictive palmistry); other options are found in the miscellaneous (hands & beyond) section - covering a wide spectrum of supplemental topics!

- Introduced in April 2017 -

(Meanwhile the preceding Nail Tutor is also still be available)

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- Introduced in October 2017 -

Major hand signs &
the General Factor of Personality
(a.k.a. 'Trait EQ')

Hand charts for the Big Five personality dimensions Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Extraversion & Openness are displayed below; each pair of hands describes the most typical combinations involving hand shape, finger lengths, major creases, palmar dermatoglyphics & fingerprints for high- and low scorers in each personality dimension.

(High resolution pictures included inside article above!)

The Big Five model, a.k.a. the 'Five Factor Model' (FFM) is designed to describe the full 'color-spectrum' of a personality, including it's derived psychological factors: the 4 classic temperaments, cognitive stability, cognitive flexibility & cognitive efficiency.

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Read more in the next section:

• Multi-Perspective Hand Reading