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Right-handed and left-handed people do not see the same bright side of things
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Michael E.
Right-handed and left-handed people do not see the same bright side of things (2/3/2010)
Right-handed and left-handed people do not see the same bright side of things (2/3/2010)
Despite the almost universal association of the right with life, right, positive and good things, and the left with death, inadequacy, negative and bad things, recent researches show that left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become a critical case in which conceptual associations, result of a sensory-motor experience, and those that rely on linguistic and cultural uses, are contradictory. A sensory-motor experience in itself is capable of creating abstract conceptual associations. These are the conclusions derived from various studies compiled by professor Julio Santiago de Torres, from the Department of Experimental Psychology and Behavioural Physiology at theUniversity of Granada, who has conducted a bibliographic review on the subject, published inCiencia Cognitiva: Revista Electrónica de Divulgación. One of the latest works on this subject was undertaken by researcher Daniel Casasanto (Stanford University), who found out that left-handers tend to associate the left with nice and good things and the right with ugly and bad things, which goes against the enormous power of cultural context in which they live and the language they use. Good things and bad thingsIn one of his experiments, Casasanto presented participants a diagram that depicts a character who was planning a trip to the zoo, and who loves zebras and thinks they are good, but dislikes pandas and thinks they are bad. The participant had to draw a zebra in the box that best represented good things and a panda in the box that best represented bad things. Most of right-handed people located good things in the box on the right while left-handers placed them in the box on the left. Interestingly, only 14% of participants thought that his election had to do with what his dominant hand was. Then, to see whether the left or right location could affect rating dimensions on abstract personality, he asked another group of participants to rate pairs of objects depicted in another drawing, indicating which of the two seemed more intelligent, more honest, more attractive and happier. And in a final experiment, participants were asked to assess which candidate would they chose for a job, or what product would they buy in a store. In all tasks, right-handers tended to evaluate the object on the right better, while left-handers favored the one on the left. Therefore, UGRprofessor says, "these results demonstrate that perceptuomotor experiences, in this case the greater ease and fluidity of interaction with one or another side of space, are sufficient to generate stable associations between specific dimensions, such as space, and concepts of a high degree of abstraction, such as kindness, intelligence or honesty." These data provide one of the first clear demonstrations that sensory-motor experience can exert a powerful influence on the conceptualization of even our most abstract ideas. A wrong worldAs professor Santiago explains, "a left-handed person has often the feeling of having been born in a wrong world. From scissors to computer keyboards designs, everything is projected for right-handers. The fact that left-handed people are able to adapt quite well to these manual controls that are contrary to their nature, indicates a first interesting fact that it is often overlooked: undoubtedly, there is a difference in motor ability between the dominant and the non-dominant hand, but it is far from being a great difference." In fact, the researcher points out, "speed and accuracy differences between the right and the left hand that are usually found, do not go beyond 10%. In addition, the left hand can be trained to high levels of implementation, as in the case of musicians or typists. In contrast with the intensive use of the right hand that characterizes an average right-handed person in over 90% of the tasks. Julio Santiago recalls in his article that association between right and left with the symbolic systems of the world cultures "is deep, and reaches almost every aspect of life. Thus, right and left are respectively associated with aristocratic and common people, male and female, sacred and profane, good and bad. Eventually, these partnerships control aspects of life as varied as the position in which dead are buried, distribution of space in homes and churches, positions in which men and women sit at the table or in the temple and the hand chosen for saluting, swearing, eating or bathing." Moreover, Santiago points out, "even vocabulary is also full of similar facts such as, for example, the word "siniestro", which derives from sinister, "izquierda" in Latin. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by the University of Granada |
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Permalink Reply by Saul Rosenfeld on -
Michael,
But what about all those poor brain-addled ambidextrous folks?
Will they ever find happiness? Will they ever fit in and become a part of society?
Or are they destined to wander the earth alone and confused by this cruel karmic "balance"...?
Questions like that are what keep me up at night, tossing and turning (from right to left, then back again).
Saul
www.HistoryOfhypnotism.com
(the RIGHT book for both "righties" AND "lefties"!)
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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on -
Saul Rosenfeld said:But what about all those poor brain-addled ambidextrous folks?
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!
Love and hugs,
Fable
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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on -
Living as a lefty is interesting. Actually, I don't think about it too often, unless someone calls me:
1. Southpaw
2. Lefty
3. Ballock-handed
4. Corrie-pawed
5. Cuddy-wifter
6. Hooker
7. Buck-fisted
8. Cack-handed
9. Caggy
10. Clicky
11. Cow-pawed
12. Dolly-pawed
13. Gar-pawed
14. Gibble-fisted
15. Golly-handed
16. Kay-neived
17. Keck-fisted
18. Keggy-handed
19. Kerry Kittaghy
20. Left-kelly
21. Left-plug
22. Scoochy
23. Scrammy-handed
24. Skiffle-handed
25. Spuddy-handed
26. Squiffy
27. Bambino
And then I just use the proper left-handed finger back at 'em!
Kelley
PS ~ Lefties make better lovers.
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Permalink Reply by Saul Rosenfeld on
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Hah, Fable, how right you are (oh, wait a minute...)!
Saul
www.HistoryOfHypnotism.com
Fable Goodman said:Saul Rosenfeld said:But what about all those poor brain-addled ambidextrous folks?
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!
Love and hugs,
Fable
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Permalink Reply by Michael Zappellini on -
Hi Fable,
I am ambidextrous, why would you give your right arm to be one?
I don't know if I agree with these studies.
Cheers
Fable Goodman said:Saul Rosenfeld said:But what about all those poor brain-addled ambidextrous folks?
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!
Love and hugs,
Fable
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Permalink Reply by Walt Potter on
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Wow! Some of those I've not heard.
I spent some time abroad and being left handed caused some real problems until I learned to use my clumsy hand.
I'm often surprised to find that I like lefthanders before I know that they're gifted like me.
Kelley Woods said:Living as a lefty is interesting. Actually, I don't think about it too often, unless someone calls me:
1. Southpaw
2. Lefty
3. Ballock-handed
4. Corrie-pawed
5. Cuddy-wifter
6. Hooker
7. Buck-fisted
8. Cack-handed
9. Caggy
10. Clicky
11. Cow-pawed
12. Dolly-pawed
13. Gar-pawed
14. Gibble-fisted
15. Golly-handed
16. Kay-neived
17. Keck-fisted
18. Keggy-handed
19. Kerry Kittaghy
20. Left-kelly
21. Left-plug
22. Scoochy
23. Scrammy-handed
24. Skiffle-handed
25. Spuddy-handed
26. Squiffy
27. Bambino
And then I just use the proper left-handed finger back at 'em!
Kelley
PS ~ Lefties make better lovers.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on -
I kinda go both ways, which is probably why I think ambidextrous ia best at least for me..
Walt Potter said:Wow! Some of those I've not heard.
I spent some time abroad and being left handed caused some real problems until I learned to use my clumsy hand.
I'm often surprised to find that I like lefthanders before I know that they're gifted like me.
Kelley Woods said:Living as a lefty is interesting. Actually, I don't think about it too often, unless someone calls me:
1. Southpaw
2. Lefty
3. Ballock-handed
4. Corrie-pawed
5. Cuddy-wifter
6. Hooker
7. Buck-fisted
8. Cack-handed
9. Caggy
10. Clicky
11. Cow-pawed
12. Dolly-pawed
13. Gar-pawed
14. Gibble-fisted
15. Golly-handed
16. Kay-neived
17. Keck-fisted
18. Keggy-handed
19. Kerry Kittaghy
20. Left-kelly
21. Left-plug
22. Scoochy
23. Scrammy-handed
24. Skiffle-handed
25. Spuddy-handed
26. Squiffy
27. Bambino
And then I just use the proper left-handed finger back at 'em!
Kelley
PS ~ Lefties make better lovers.
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