Are left-handers less violent?
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Vol. 9 (1) , 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02088375
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.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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