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PSYCHOLOGY - Charlotte Wolff, intelligence, feeble minded people, syndactyly & abnormal creases

INDEX (P1) - INTRO (P2) - HISTORY (P3-7) - DISEASES - (P8-13) - PSYCHIATRY (P14-25) - PSYCHOLOGY (P26-32) - CONCLUSION (P33-34)

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Hand Diagnostics & Psychology:

Charlotte Wolff, intelligence, feeble minded people, syndactyly & abnormal creases!

A few decades ago Charlotte Wolff1 reported dermatoglyphics can provide some clues related to the intelligence of a subject, see table D-1.

Only a few years ago some Spanish researchers reported some supportive evidence from the hands of feeble minded children. In the hands of 62 feeble minded children these Spanish researchers observed a high number of arches and radial loops, and a high number of abnormal creases was reported as well. By the way, Wolff described more specific a relationship between low IQ and 'an arch pattern on the thumb' combined with 'abnormal creases'.

Table D-1: Observations by Wolff on feeble minded people (N = 412, IQ<70)
and a control group (N = 150, IQ>70).1

- - Feeble minded - Control group
- DIMENSION 1 - dermatoglyphics: - -
- Arch pattern on the thumb - 8.1 % - 6.0 %
- Arch patterns on fingertips - 22.0 % - 20.0 %
- Whorl or loop on the thenar or hypothenar - 25.6 % - 15.0 %
- DIMENSION 2 - morphology: - -
- Small thumb - 31.1 % - 3.0 %
- Short fifth finger - 26.3 % - 10.0 %
- Missing crease on the on the fifth finger - 2.2 % - 0.0 %
- Syndactyly (failure of finger differentiation) - 1.0 % - 0.0 %
- Underdeveloped finger nails - 33.3 % - 2.0 %
- Concave primitive fingernagels - 9.8 % - 0.0 %
- DIMENSION 3 - creases: - -
- Simian crease - 19.9 % - 2.0 %
- Missing vertical palmar crease - 27.0 % - 5.0 %
- Chaotic palmar creases - 7.7 % - 0.0 %
- Short head line - 9.6 % - 1.0 %
- Irregular developed head line - 54.7 % - 19.0 %
- Short heart line - 4.1 % - 0.0 %
- Irregular developed heart line - 32.3 % - 27.0 %

Sources:

1 - Charlotte Wolff The hand in psychological diagnosis. New York: Philosophical Inc., 1952.

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