Lateral preferences for hand clasping and arm folding are associated with handedness in two large-sample latent variable analyses

Autor(en)

Ulrich S. Tran, Ingrid Koller, Ingo Nader, Jakob Pietschnig, Anne Schild, Stefan Stieger, Elisabeth Zeilinger, Martin Voracek

Abstrakt

Hand clasping (HC) and arm folding (AF) are bilateral limb postures which are subject to lateral preferences. Previous research suggested that left HC and left AF are "canonical" among European populations, i.e., generally preferred by right-handers. However, evidence on the associations of handedness with HC and AF to date is sparse and inconsistent, with studies mostly relying on relatively small sample sizes and arbitrary classifications of handedness. Utilizing latent class analysis for handedness classification, we present data from two large and independent middle-European samples, a discovery (n = 7,658) and replication (n = 5,062) sample. Our results indicate that right HC, not left HC, is overall preferred and that right-handedness is associated with right HC/left AF, and left- and mixed-handedness with left HC/right AF. Moreover, lateral preferences increased with age, and men had a higher preference of right HC, independent of handedness. We discuss our findings with regard to the generalizability of previous results.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden

Journal

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

Band

19

Seiten

602-614

Anzahl der Seiten

13

ISSN

1357-650X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2014.891607

Publikationsdatum

09-2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501021 Sozialpsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Psychologie, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/90adcef8-3f90-403a-88e3-55ff00140fb9