Sharon Crandall | Personality Consultant & Coach

1. What is Personality Science (PS)? Personality Science was discovered and developed by Edward Vincent Jones. It is a method of determining personality traits through your genetic inheritance. The traits reside in the brain and also have a physical counterpart that manifests in various physical features. Approximately 80% of all behavior stems from your genetic traits. Personality Science empowers you to:

Get others to cooperate with you: If you desire to be successful at home or in business you must have the cooperation of others. Since personality traits are found in facial and other physical features, you can have immediate understanding of others and what motivates them when you learn Personality Science. You will then have the information you need to inspire them to cooperate with you.

Know how you are you impacting others. You may understand yourself somewhat but do you know how you appear to others? Personality Science shows you how to impact others favorably to help you have more influence on others. You can adjust your approach to help people feel more at home with you.

Understand how your gifts are your challenges and your challenges are your gifts: Personality Science will show you how each trait has both a positive and negative expression. You will learn how to optimize your gifts and turn your challenges into assets.

This is how it works:



* You possess over 60 traits. You were born with over 60 personality traits in a unique combination that stem from your inherited genetic pattern. No two people are alike. Your traits show both your gifts and your challenges.

* There are five trait areas. Different parts of your brain have cells in the following areas: Thinking/Analytical, Action, Emotional, Outward Expression, and the areas that control Physical Expression. The mass of cells, in those areas, determines the strength of each one of your traits. In most of the traits there is potential for opposite behavior to one degree or another. For example, Logical on one end and Emotional on the other. The inclination to behave one way or another depends on which cells are dominant. A few of the traits, however, have no opposite behavior-you either have them to some degree or you don't. An example would be the trait of Mechanical aptitude.

* Traits have a physical counterpart. You can see them by observing physical characteristics. You will be looking at the size of the iris, shape of the face, space between the eyes, height of the eyebrow, height of the forehead, etc.

* There are several ways traits are measured. While you will be able to "read" a person's personality enough to significantly change your life by looking at physical features and observation of behavior, a Personality Science consultant can do so with greater accuracy. He uses measuring tools, plus sight and touch to measure the traits, and then scores them on a scale from one to ten. (See the following measuring scale)

Scores in the bottom and top third of the scale represent high and low scores. The middle third represents medium scores. With few exceptions, the highs and lows are the traits that "speak" the loudest in our personalities and more easily affect our interaction with one another.

Measuring Scale:
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The score on this trait would be an eight

* Traits are not good; traits are not bad. Calling the traits "high" and "low" can be misleading. High and low scores do not mean good and bad. "High" means a person has strong inclinations to behave one way on that particular trait, and "low" means that he has strong inclinations to behave the opposite way. Each trait has both positive and negative inclinations.

* We can choose our behavior. Just because we have a trait doesn't mean we are locked into a particular behavior. There is a point of choice with each trait. At that point, trait talk comes into the brain to tell you how to act or react, but you can choose to act or react differently. An example would be in the trait of Wide Tolerance, which inclines you to be quite laid back, especially with time. The trait talk might be, "Oh, this project is not due until Friday. I have plenty of time." In reality you might not have plenty of time, so the trait talk is a signal to you that maybe you'd better take a second look at how much time you really have. With that information you can choose your behavior.

* Traits can change. Trait measurements have been shown to change within a matter of a few weeks. Usually, however, it takes longer because you are changing thinking habits and taking action that at first is uncomfortable. As you do "the hard thing," however, you build or amplify cells until the new behavior becomes natural to you. Have you ever noticed how a couple often grows to look more alike as they mature? There is plenty of indication that they adjust their personalities to one another and thus change in appearance.

* You can understand Mood swings. Genetically, your father's family influences one side of your body and your mother's family influences the other. This means you can have two different measurements, as in the scale below. When you have two different measurements you would have what we call a mood swing. You will feel and react differently in one mood, then switch to feeling and reacting another way when the other side of the trait emerges.

Some mood swings can also stem from physical problems, such as hormones being out of whack, but that is usually a temporary condition. Mood swings that come from trait differences are present throughout your life. You can, however, even them out and also control them. They become an interesting part of your personality when you control them. This means that you can enjoy being what you want to be according to the situation you are in. Whenever I have measured people who have been diagnosed as bipolar or manic/depressive I have always found significant trait mood swings.

Two measurements show a mood swing:
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This measuring scale shows both a score of three and eight

* You have a masculine side and a feminine side. The side that is masculine or feminine is determined by which parent was healthier and stronger at the time of conception, according to Jones' studies. By looking at a person when standing in a relaxed position you can tell which side is which, when you know what you are looking for.

* Traits do not stand alone. Our more powerful traits can either augment or diminish other traits. While one trait with an extreme score can cause challenges, such as communication difficulties; more often it is a cluster of traits that augment each other.

Your personality profile is your TICKET TO SUCCESS, if you learn how to get your traits to work for you, rather than against you.

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2. Who discovered Personality Science? Personality Science was discovered and developed by Edward Vincent Jones, 1891-1970.

As a boy, Edward Vincent Jones had questions within himself such as: "Why do some men become leaders, content and powerful; why do others despair and give up, hurt themselves and others, and destroy their peace of mind?"

As a judge, he began to connect people's behavior with the way they looked. This inspired him to research everything he could find on people's characteristics such as Phrenology, Physiognomy, and Character Analysis. He recorded his observations and later was introduced to the works of Mendel from whom he learned about genetics.

He began to isolate individual traits; and instead of trying to prove the validity of each trait-when he was pretty sure of the trait he then set out to disprove it in every way possible. Some traits took as long as 13 years to complete the verification.

Finally, at age fifty, he was ready to teach others what he knew. At some point he devoted all his time to the study and teaching of what he first called Science of Persons. He later coined the word "Personology," which is still used today by a few practitioners. I have chosen to call it Personality Science.

Past investigations, that attempted to classify personality traits in individuals, unsuccessfuly went from body to behavior, but Jones went from behavior to body. He first isolated the behavior in detail and then looked for the most likely physical feature. His study of the body, the nervous system and the glandular system gave him many clues to help him in his discoveries. He finally validated around 70 traits, according to one of his students, John Thornton, who wrote a manuscript taken from notes from Jones' classes.

His classes came to the attention of the Los Angeles Police Department, who sent several officers to investigate what they thought was "the biggest fraud in the City of Los Angeles." Several officers attended his classes and instead of exposing this "fraud," they became some of his most ardent supporters. He became quite well known in Los Angeles when he was able to indentify various criminals through understanding trait behavior associated with particular crimes. According to Thornton, Jones was "used by Buron Fitts, District Attorney of Los Angeles County, to help him solve high level crimes," Jones did much of his research working with prisoners in San Quentin, where he learned a great deal about criminal behavior and corresponding traits.

A man, by the name of Robert Whitesides was trained by Jones and worked under him for a while. Due to differences in how the business aspects of Personology should be administrated, Whitesides moved away in 1957 and opened the Interstate College of Personology in northern California. Both Jones and Whitesides continued (independently) refining the science. After Jones died Robert Whitesides and his wife, Elizabeth, continued teaching and training others for the work. Sharon Crandall, Personality Science Consultant and Coach, incorporates materials in her work from both sources. From her vast range of knowledge she has developed her own Personality Science training, teaching, and certification programs.

Note: Edward Jones was a man of integrity, a solid Christian who also had a love of country. The following anecdote will give you insight into his life and demonstrates some of the great qualities Jones had. This information was taken from the voice of Dr. Jones on some tapes of classes he was teaching:

When he was elected judge he was so proud of his first day in office. When he walked into the courtroom for the first time there were flowers waiting for him and people there whom he admired. He quickly became disillusioned, however, when he also found other things. In the interest of privacy I have excluded the names of the public officials involved.

"I never once dreamed that I would ever be elected to office, but I was elected. . . . The day I took office I walked into a courtroom a little larger than this room and I thought, 'This is wonderful-this is wonderful! This is the greatest thing that ever happened to anybody!' It was during prohibition and I was judge. Flowers all around the room. I thought, 'Oh this is great!' What could be greater? My dad was sitting there, my mother was sitting there, my wife was sitting there, the kids were sitting there. Oh, brother, this is something! ... "

"The first name that I took off the flowers, I looked from the (public official) said, 'Don't look now but behind the door before you go home tonight you'll find something.' That night when I looked... a case of liquor. Ohh. During prohibition from the (another public official). (Then he refers to the flowers from someone else.) The (public official), 'When I drive in your driveway tonight, don't turn on the lights. I'll unload it in the garage if you'll leave the lights off.' He tried to unload a barrel of wine in the driveway."

"From the (another public official) a letter. '(some kind of an authorization note) The contents of this package is evidence consigned from the (public official's) office.' I could carry liquor or anything else, anywhere around the state. The supervisors and everybody who had any political office sought to bribe me that way. I'm an idealist, I don't often tell this, but I'm telling you that way [how] somebody can be hurt. I was hurt so badly that I've never gotten over it. I made a lot of enemies, but I moved out of the courthouse and went up town and rented a hall. I paid the rent on that hall and I furnished the hall, and I paid my own telephone bill for the rest of the years I was on the bench, and the reason that I refused to run the second time or ever serve on a bench again was because my ideals were hurt."

3. Is Personality Science a part of the New Age Movement or Spiritualism? No. It is simply a method of determining personality traits through observation of specific facial and other physical features. People from all walks of life, religions, and philosophies have benefited greatly from Personality Science. People probably ask Sharon that question because she can measure E.S.P. traits. They are gift traits similar to music or art traits.

4. What is the advantage of Personality Science before marriage? That is a great question. Besides my book, "Compatible? Or Combatable?" which shows you how to choose a compatible mate by looking at physical features, through Personality Science you can work out your differences in advance. This could save you years of trial and error, and probably a lot of anger and tears. It is a wonderful advantage to be able to understand the other person's perspective, in a given situation, instead of thinking the other person is just being difficult or uncaring. When you already know your most of your differences in advance you can plan ahead as to how you will handle those situations where the difference will cause friction. Sharon helps people to negotiate their differences in a very specific way.

5. Can anyone learn Personality Science? Yes. Of course, like any other field of endeavor, some people will have more of an aptitude for it than others, but anyone can learn this science. For more information Contact Sharon and she will send you a complete outline of her training program.

6. What if someone has cosmetic surgery or has sustained an injury that has changed the face-does that change the trait? No. The trait remains the same, but we have found that people are often treated differently after cosmetic surgery. If you drastically change your looks you obscure your true personality, which causes confusion in those you meet.

Some people have expressed dismay at how others have treated them differently because of cosmetic surgery, such as one woman who lamented that others no longer respected her in business after her surgery.

If you are contemplating cosmetic surgery, schedule a private telephone session with Sharon so she can show you how to modify, but not completely change, a trait appearance. Or, you can order the report, "How Cosmetic Surgery Might Change the Way People View and Treat You," for a complete guide to the traits corresponding each part of the face that could alter your effectiveness with others. This report will show drawings of various facial features, along with information to enable you to make an informed decision before you have surgery. Ordering information (for both the private session and the report)

Note: Physical features do change if you change the trait yourself. That is probably why couples grow to look more alike the longer they are together. More than likely they are adjusting their personalities to each other. I have seen and experienced changes in my own measurements and those of others who have worked on their traits.

7. Is Personality Science a true science? It is an applied science, meaning that conclusions are based on observation. Personality traits are determined from observation of behavior of a certain number of people coupled with the measurement of the corresponding physical feature. Some question Jones' methods in determining personality traits from physical features, but it is just as much a science as psychology. In fact, I believe it to be more accurate because of the additional physical feature indicators.

I also question much of what psychologists call disorders. For example, in my book, "Does Your Child Really Have ADD/ADHD?" I go over some standard lists of ADD/ADHD symptoms and show how each symptom can easily be explained as a trait or combination of traits. I show that those traits are actually gifts and possibly not disorders at all.

For example, the trait of Low Concentration, which is classified as a symptom on the ADD list, is a gift of being able to change focus quickly. This ability is necessary in many occupations where changing focus quickly is an advantage, or in any occupation that requires multi-tasking. If you want to be a radio or television announcer it is an advantage; or if you might choose to be a manger that oversees a large number of people and catch any difficulties that pop up, you will want to have Low Concentration. On one hand, difficulty in concentrating on one thing for very long is a disadvantage in most school settings; it is truly a gift in other situations. Ordering information for Sharon's book