183 | Handedness and Personality or Just Handedness

Handedness is both genetic and environmentally determined. Consider that left-handedness was demonized by many cultures, and subsequently, many tools and infrastructure were designed to be most easily used by right-handed people. Although there may be some correlations with personality and gender and other things, what hand-dominance may say about you is probably pretty limited.

Links for Today:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168892/pdf/jeab-96-02-283.pdf

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-myths/201303/three-myths-and-three-facts-about-left-handers

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/201908/8-new-scientific-findings-about-left-

https://bsci21.org/jeab-behavior-insensitive-to-consequences-in-major-league-baseball/

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/bioscience/the-left-handed-brain-between-science-and-myth/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/202005/7-surprising-facts-about-left-handedness-in-animals

https://www.sciencealert.com/there-are-many-myths-about-being-left-handed-but-here-s-what-we-actually-know

https://www.thehealthy.com/aging/mind-memory/left-handed-people-myths/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/201907/do-i-kiss-you-right-exploring-side-preferences-in-kissing

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