Are left-handers less violent? |
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Authors: | June M. Andrew |
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Affiliation: | (1) Box 17283, 92117 San Diego, California |
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Abstract: | Previous work has shown that left-handers are overrepresented among juvenile offenders. The present study was designed to test whether left-handers are also overrepresented among violent juvenile offenders. However, opposite to expectation, the results showed that left-handed offenders scored lower than right-handed offenders on the Violence Scale, a measure of the violence potential of offenses read from the legal record. The unexpected effect was consistent over four sex-ethnicity subgroups. Possible explanations concerned sex-handedness interactions and hemisphericity effects.Received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from University of California, Los Angeles. Major research interests are delinquency, violence, and coping under stress. |
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