On which side lies the truth? It’s on the left, according to a 1993 study published in the journal Neuropsychologia. The left ear, this study says, is better than the right ear at discerning truth.
Slightly better. In most people. Some of the time.
The report is called Hemispheric Asymmetry for the Auditory Recognition of True and False Statements. Franco Fabbro and his team at the University of Trieste conducted an experiment….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.