We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

Left-handers are more competitive than right-handers, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The findings may help explain why left-handedness has persisted throughout ...

W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being ...

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree in ...

Left-handedness has always been something of a mystery. If you’re among the roughly 10 percent of the population that favors their left hand, you’ve probably heard all kinds of theories about your ...

A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate better. Thank “evolutionarily stable strategy” for the mix. A study ...

Are there two or three forms of handedness? Most psychological studies investigating handedness have two different categories: left-handedness and right-handedness. A large-scale meta-analysis ...