New research suggests left-handed people may be more competitive than right-handers, offering clues to an evolutionary advantage.

The scientists used these answers to calculate a Laterality Quotient (LQ), a measure of a person's hand dominance. Based on these answers, the team selected 483 strongly right-handed individuals and ...

A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate ...

Does left-handedness affect abilities like creativity or intelligence? Most people are right-handed, but about 10.6 percent are left-handed (Papadatou-Pastou and co-workers, 2020). While some older ...

Why are 90% of people right-handed and 10% left-handed? A modification of the well-known fighting hypothesis aims to explain this pattern.