In 2025, several psychology studies aimed at understanding left-handedness were published. Here are the major takeaways from them.

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 ...

A new type of OLED can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from just one form of light-emitting ...

Across people, brain functions such as social skills, mood, and attention are highly diverse. For example, some of us are very social and enjoy spending time with others 24/7. Others are less social ...

There's a handful of people — roughly 10 percent of the global population — that has something in common. Many mysteries and misconceptions surround this group. Its members have been called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...