Left-Handed People Are More Competitive, Says Science
Key summary
Researchers published study results in Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Chieti-Pescara published results in Scientific Reports.
Participant sample provided questionnaire data on handedness and competitiveness, about 1,100 participants completed questionnaires measuring handedness and competitiveness facets.
Left-handed participants scored higher on development-oriented competitiveness and lower on anxiety-driven avoidance, stronger left-handed laterality associated with higher personal-development-oriented competitiveness and lower anxious avoidance.
Strongly lateralized left-handers scored higher on hypercompetitiveness than strongly lateralized right-handers, when comparing strongly lateralized groups, left-handers scored higher on hypercompetitiveness.
Pegboard subgroup completed a pegboard manual dexterity test, a subgroup of 48 participants took a pegboard manual dexterity test with equal numbers of left- and right-handers and equal gender proportions.
