Jun 16, 2021
Most people use their right hand to perform various tasks like eating, writing, playing sports. But there's also a minority of people who primarily use their left hands for these things. Why are left-handed people left-handed? Is it genetic? Are their brains different? Are they smarter? Do they live longer or die earlier? Well, there's a lot of information about left handers circulating in social media, especially making all kinds of claims about left handed people. In this episode, Therese Markow and Dr. Clare Porac, one of the world’s experts in handedness, answer these questions. Dr. Porac has extensively studied a range of different aspects of handedness and lateral reality reflected by her several 100 academic publications and two books.
Key Takeaways:
"The incidence rate of pure left-handers, people who do everything
with their left hand, is really quite low, probably below 5%
of the population. Most left handers do something with their right
hand. That could be because, their lateral reality is more fluid,
since they are not strongly right-handed. Or it could be because
they're adapting to a right handed world."
— Dr. Clare
Porac
Connect with Dr. Clare Porac:
Professional Bio: https://behrend.psu.edu/person/clare-porac-phd
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hilefthander?lang=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/4lefthanders
Book: Laterality: Exploring Left Handedness https://www.amazon.com/Laterality-Exploring-Left-Handedness-Clare-Porac/dp/0128012390
Book: Lateral Preferences and Human Behavior https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FB3D6WK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
Book: In Strange Places
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091B77337/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
Blog: https://sites.psu.edu/clarep/
Connect with Therese:
Website: www.criticallyspeaking.net
Twitter: @CritiSpeak
Email: theresemarkow@criticallyspeaking.net
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