psychography
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- noun
- /saɪˈkɒɡrəfi/
- Archaic
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psicografía
- The art of psychography involves channeling spiritual energies to produce written messages.
Examples
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All reported that during the study, they were able to reach their usual trance-like state during the psychography task and were in their regular state of consciousness during the control task.
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The 10 mediums—five less expert and five experienced—were injected with a radioactive tracer to capture their brain activity during normal writing and during the practice of psychography, which involves the subject entering a trance-like state.
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This finding may be related to their more purposeful attempt at performing the psychography.
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Less expert psychographers showed just the opposite—increased levels of CBF in the same frontal areas during psychography compared to normal writing.
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The frontal lobe areas are associated with reasoning, planning, generating language, movement, and problem solving, perhaps reflecting an absence of focus, self-awareness, and consciousness during psychography, the researchers hypothesize.
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However, improvisational music performance and alcohol/drug consumption states are quite peculiar and distinct from psychography. "While the exact reason is at this point elusive, our study suggests there are neurophysiological correlates of this state," says Newberg.
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During the séance, the medium demonstrated her ability to practice psychography by writing messages purportedly from the spirits.
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He studied psychography to better understand the psychological traits reflected in people's handwriting.
Synonyms
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A study of handwriting that tries to show a person's character
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A practice of judging someone's personality from their face or handwriting that is not scientific
A way of sending or receiving thoughts without using the usual senses
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychography = psych (semi-transparent) = psych + graphy
The form suggests 'mind-writing', but the spiritualist and handwriting-related senses are specialized and not fully recoverable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Psychography combines psych- 'mind' or 'soul' and -graphy 'writing' or 'record', so it literally means 'writing of the soul'. That is why psychography can mean messages written by spirits or the study of personality through handwriting.