Right vs. Left
Right-handed and left-handed people do not see the same bright side of things
Although there is a universal correlation of “the right with life, right, positive and good things, and the left with death, inadequacy, negative and bad things,” recent studies have shown that not everybody believes this. A researcher at Stanford University, Daniel Casasanto, found that people who are left-handed tend to see the left as good, and the right with bad or ugly. This “goes against the enormous power of cultural context” that they live in. Professor Julio Santiago de Torres has done various studies which result in the belief that one’s sensory-motor experience in itself can create “abstract conceptual associations,” which lends people to favor the side that they use more often. Results demonstrate that experiences that give greater ease and fluidity in space generates a high level of stability for that side opposed to the opposite side, and the side that is easier is held in more goodness. I thought it was very interesting that left-handed and right-handed people had such difference of opinions on abstract ideas based on which hand they use more. I wanted to see for myself, so I asked my roommate to draw Satan and Jesus on a sheet of paper. Being right-handed, she proved this theory correct, and drew Satan on the left and Jesus on the right.
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Although there is a universal correlation of “the right with life, right, positive and good things, and the left with death, inadequacy, negative and bad things,” recent studies have shown that not everybody believes this. A researcher at Stanford University, Daniel Casasanto, found that people who are left-handed tend to see the left as good, and the right with bad or ugly. This “goes against the enormous power of cultural context” that they live in. Professor Julio Santiago de Torres has done various studies which result in the belief that one’s sensory-motor experience in itself can create “abstract conceptual associations,” which lends people to favor the side that they use more often. Results demonstrate that experiences that give greater ease and fluidity in space generates a high level of stability for that side opposed to the opposite side, and the side that is easier is held in more goodness. I thought it was very interesting that left-handed and right-handed people had such difference of opinions on abstract ideas based on which hand they use more. I wanted to see for myself, so I asked my roommate to draw Satan and Jesus on a sheet of paper. Being right-handed, she proved this theory correct, and drew Satan on the left and Jesus on the right.
http://www.webnewswire.com/node/501904
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