Study reveals that left handed people are more affected by fear
May 3rd, 2011 - 7:36 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattEdinburg, May 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A study has revealed that left handed people are more prone to fear when compared to their right handed counterparts. Psychologists conducted an experiment on a group of people and showed them a horror movie clip and they found to their surprise that left handed people were more afraid after seeing the clip than the right handed ones.
Psychologists also asked the study subjects to recall events from the clip and the left handed people narrated a very distributed account of the clip that was peppered with repetitions. Later researchers said that such behavior was a symptom of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The right handed people were also scared but their fear was comparatively lesser than the left handers.
“We used a portion of film from Silence of the Lambs that we know elicits fear, so we could check the recalled account against the film. People who were left handed showed significantly more fragmentation in their memories and more repetition. It seems that after experiencing a fearful event, even on film, people who are left handed had subtle behaviours that were like people suffering from post traumatic stress disorder,” according to Dr Carolyn Choudhary, who works at the Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
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