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...thoroughly does a man give himself away by his facial expression, his voice, the way he walks? Much more than he suspects, says Psychologist Werner Wolff of Bard College, Columbia University...
...Wolff, who for 18 years has searched for a means of reading people's inner personality from their appearance, reports his results in The Expression of Personality (Harper; $3.50). Eminent psychologists like Harvard's Gordon Allport, consider his book a milestone in "depth psychology" (study of the subconscious...
Beginning in Berlin in 1925, Wolff examined with a piercing eye the physiognomy and behavior of several dozen men and women. In pictures and sound he recorded their faces, hands, voices, handwriting, gait, storytelling style...
...hand has two major functions, says Dr. Wolff. It is the primary organ of the sense of touch and the primary instrument of human action. In both functions "the hand is a visible part of the human brain." Both hand and brain respond to external impressions. The sum of the nervous, emotional and mental responses is personality-by the Wolff thesis, clearly legible in the hand...
Prehensile or Tactile. Dr. Wolff's classification of hands is complex but is based primarily on the use of the hand as a sense organ or as a tool for action. She lists six major types, a dozen combinations. Examples of basic types...