IMDb: “Top 50 Famous Left Handed Celebrities. ![]() Laterality: “Is there geographical variation in human handedness?” Newsweek: “Science: Why Lefties Make Better Baseball Players.” University of Washington: “Neuroscience for Kids: One Brain … or Two?” Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry: “Mirror writing: neurological reflections on an unusual phenomenon.”įrontiers in Psychology: “The Prevalence of Left-Handedness Is Higher Among Individuals With Developmental Coordination Disorder Than in the General Population.” So it’s often easier for us to be creative than logical. Johns Hopkins University Press: “Stuttering and ‘Retraining’ Left-Handed Children in Mid-Century U.S.” When we’re left-handed, our right brains are usually dominant, and that’s where creativity and intuition are centered. PLOS One: “Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority.”Īnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences: “The Evolution of Human Handedness.” Newsweek: “International Left-handers Day: Famous Left-handed People, Left-handed facts, and Left-handed Products Revealed.”įamily Handyman: “15 Tools Made Specifically for Lefties.” The North American Review: “Left-handedness and Left-sidedness.” Global Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology: “Left-Handedness and Stigmatization in Africa: Implications for Parents and Teachers.” Perceptual and Motor Skills: “Do Left-Handed Competitors Have an Innate Superiority in Sports? Pediatrics: “Mixed-Handedness Is Linked to Mental Health Problems In Children And Adolescents.”ĭemography: “Nature’s Experiment? Handedness and Early Childhood Development.” PNAS: “Wild chimpanzees show population-level handedness for tool use.” Journal of the Royal Society Biology Letters (U.K.): “Left-handedness and time pressure in elite interactive ball games.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface (U.K.): “A model balancing cooperation and competition can explain our right-handed world and the dominance of left-handed athletes.” NIH Genetics Home Reference: “Is handedness determined by genetics?”īrain: “Handedness, language, areas of neuropsychiatric diseases: insights from brain imaging and genetics.” Philosophical Transactions B: “Why Are Some People Lefthanded? An evolutionary perspective.”Īmerican Psychological Association: “The left brain knows what the right hand is doing.” And, finally, that knocking might happen with left-handed tools.11) Clockwise from top left: dodmedia / Wikipedia, Obama White House, Gage Skidmore / Wikipedia, Vera Anderson / Getty Images Not everywhere caught on equally quickly-a few years later, TIME ran a story about the persistence of the stigma in Japan-but barriers were being knocked down. He stocks left-handed versions of most types of kitchen hardware, irons, and also carries artists’ palettes, dressmakers’ scissors, surgeons’ knives, pruning shears and cricket bats. When he asked for a left-handed can opener, for instance, he was asked if he wanted a left-handed can as well. Doing market research, Gruby found that shop clerks treated his inquiries with some Dark Ages-style rudeness. Its director, William Gruby, 39, opened his store late last year after giving a dinner party at which he and his wife found that their four guests were all left-handed and all perfectly willing to complain bitterly about the nuisances of life in a right-handed world. One of the most interesting-run by a righthander, surprisingly-is Anything Left-Handed, Ltd. ![]() And jump they did:Ī few shops now cater to left-handers who either cannot or will not adjust to a right-handed world. That situation meant there was an untapped market for leftie goods, just waiting for a smart business owner to jump. At the time, lefties had few options in terms of the everyday items that depend on handedness from sports equipment to kitchen items, most things designed to be held were only optimized for one direction. It was just a matter of simple economics. ![]() One possible reason that aura of suspicion may have changed, TIME suggested, was a lot less complicated than anything having to do with evil spirits.
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