In 2025, several psychology studies aimed at understanding left-handedness were published. Here are the major takeaways from ...

Extraversion: People with high extraversion scores are more social, and people with low extraversion scores are more ...

I’m left-handed, which means I’ve spent my entire life fumbling with scissors, wiping ink smudges from my pinky finger, and thumbing through magazines backwards. I’ve always accepted that being ...

Left-handedness and certain neurological disorders could go hand-in-hand, a new study revealed, though the researchers and others acknowledged potential limitations. While about 10% of people in the ...

'Southpaw', 'goofy', or just plain 'lefty' are some of the many names that left-handers have been called. In certain societies, the aversion can go so far that some left-handers are forced to write ...

Left-handedness is sometimes the expression of a genetic defect or an early developmental disturbance. Left-handedness is sometimes the expression of a genetic defect or an early developmental ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Clyde Francks, a geneticist in the Netherlands, about the latest research into what makes people left or right-handed. If you're left-handed, like me, you know you are ...

The human tendency to be right-handed is obvious—especially if you’re a lefty, and have to deal with right-handed desks and scissors, not to mention spiral notebooks. Handedness is related to brain ...

I recently stumbled upon a description of research out of Yale that suggested there was a link between left-handedness and psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. Forty percent of those with psychotic ...

Genes that play a role in the orientation of internal organs may also affect whether someone is right- or left-handed, new research suggests. The study, published today (Sept. 12) in the journal PLOS ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who don't show a hand preference are more likely than their righty or lefty peers to perform poorly in school, a new study in the journal Pediatrics shows. And ...