How to Create Your Own Personology Chart

Personology is a pseudoscience created by California Judge Edward Vincent Jones, who began noticing a correlation between the appearance of people's faces and whether or not they were guilty, according to an article by David Shamah on the Israel 21C website. Since Personology is nothing more than a theory, people are still conducting tests to gauge its accuracy and effectiveness. You can perform your own tests. Start with making a chart of the facial features of people you know or meet.

Things You'll Need

• Camera
• Psychology Books
• Criminology Books
• Pencil
• Notebook
• Computer

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Instructions

• 1

  Take photos of a number of people you know and a number of people you meet. Purchase or check out psychology or criminology books that compare facial features to different personalities. Check out the book "Psychology and Crime: An Introduction to Criminological Psychology" by Clive R. Hollin.

• 2

  Label each photo with a name or unique identification number. List these names or numbers along one side of a chart you design. List different parts of every person's face along the top of the chart, such as eyes, nose, mouth, cheekbones and ears. Make sure to also list things like symmetry, since the more symmetrical someone's face, the more well-adjusted they are, according to Israel 21C's article. These photos, names and identifications -- along with corresponding characteristics and analysis -- should be listed in a chart resembling a spreadsheet.

• 3

  Examine every photo individually, taking each individual's features into account. Compare them to what has been written in psychology and criminology books. Look for chapters about personology or analysis of specific facial features in criminals or patients. List the personality traits that could be attributed to their facial features. Do this for each photo on your Personology chart.

• 4

  Interview each of the subjects you photograph and ask them the same set of questions, including where they were born, personal history, jobs they've had, their likes and dislikes. It is very important that the questions are exactly the same for every test subject. Type up or further refine your personology chart based on the answers and see if a pattern develops among people with similar facial structures.