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The Bias toward the Right Side of Others Is Stronger for Hands than for Feet

Gianluca MalatestaChiara LucafòDaniele MarzoliLuca TommasiFederico SmerilliCosimo FerraraPrzemysław Zdybek

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Footednessmedicine.medical_specialtyfootednessPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)General Mathematicsmedia_common.quotation_subjectRelative strengthAttentional bias050105 experimental psychologyhandedness03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinePhysical medicine and rehabilitationPerceptionComputer Science (miscellaneous)medicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesmedia_commonhuman bodylcsh:Mathematics05 social scienceslcsh:QA1-939Chemistry (miscellaneous)perceptual frequency effectambiguous figuresPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryFoot (unit)

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As shown by a series of previous studies, ambiguous human bodies performing unimanual or unipedal actions tend to be perceived more frequently as right-handed or right-footed rather than left-handed or left-footed, which indicates a perceptual and attentional bias toward the right side of others&rsquo

https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13010146