Psychologically right handed people think better of things on their right side (vice versa for right handed people) - it's not even conscious, but research does seem to show a detectable difference. So when dealing with people check which is their dominant side, are they right or left handed, and perhaps adjust things accordingly e.g. stand towards the right hand side of a righty! An interesting illustration of things physical affecting the psychological.
"..righties tend to judge objects on their right side as positive and objects on their left side as negative. Lefties do the opposite, pairing positive things with their left side and negative things with their right…
..For left-handed people, implicitly, they think good stuff is on the left and bad stuff is on the right, even though consciously, explicitly, everything in language and culture is telling them the exact opposite..
..Righties are more likely compared to lefties to gesture with their right hand when they’re talking about good stuff and lefties to gesture with their left hand when they’re talking about good stuff..
…where a candidate’s name is placed on a ballot could matter. Some states, for example, arrange candidates for the same office opposite each other in a left-right arrangement. So it’s possible that a left-handed voter who doesn’t have much information or a strong opinion on the candidates may be more inclined to pick whoever’s name happens to be on the left side of the ballot.."
News release on study by Daniel Casasanto, Stanford. Casasanto’s paper is in the August 2009 edition of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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