<P> Research in employment suitability has ranged from complete failure to guarded success . The most substantial reason for not using handwriting analysis in the employment process is the absence of evidence of a direct link between handwriting analysis and various measures of job performance . </P> <P> The use of graphology in the hiring process has been criticized on ethical grounds and on legal grounds in the United States . </P> <P> Graphology has been used clinically by European counselors and psychotherapists . When it is used, it is generally used alongside other projective personality assessment tools, and not in isolation . It is often used within individual psychotherapy, marital counseling, or vocational counseling . </P> <P> In its simplest form only sexual expression and sexual response are examined . At its most complex, every aspect of an individual is examined for how it affects the other individual (s) within the relationship . The theory is that after knowing and understanding how each individual in the relationship differs from every other individual in the relationship, the resulting marriage will be more enduring . </P>

Allport dismissed handwriting analysis as not appropriate for science