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 ...

Around 10% of the world’s population is made up of left-handed people, a number that is higher than past decades because the stigma around left-handedness has lessened. In the past, many around the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Palm readers take note: A team of Canadian psychologists suggests that part of understanding sexual orientation may be close at hand. The clue isn’t in the bend of the love line or length of the ring ...