Scenario: You are cradling a dog. Do you hold it on your left side or on your right side? This question has recently been studied in detail by Professor Ernest L. Abel, Ph.D., of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Department of Psychology, at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. The professor scoured a series […]
Tag: laterality
Kissing Inclinations, Amsterdam
“…what happens if a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to the right attempts to kiss a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to the left.“? This potentially awkward social situation is the subject of a new scientific analysis from researchers at the MOVE Research Institute based at Vrije […]
Tentacled-ness in octopuses?
So far as we’re aware, the project described in this July 2008 Scientific American report is the only one to even claim to investigate the question of handedness, or tentacled-ness, in octopuses, or octopi. In an attempt to find out if octopuses are right- or left-handed, er, tentacled, scientists from the Sea Life Center in […]