University professors' self-descriptions of left-right confusability: sex and handedness differences

Percept Mot Skills. 1978 Dec;47(3 Pt 1):819-23. doi: 10.2466/pms.1978.47.3.819.

Abstract

In a group of 364 university faculty members, frequency of self-reported confusion in left-right orientation was related to sex and handedness: among women, reports were statistically more common among left-handers than right-handers; among men, no relationship to handedness was evident. Over-all, women reported experiencing confusion more often than men did.

MeSH terms

  • Confusion / psychology
  • Discrimination, Psychological*
  • Educational Status
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Orientation*
  • Sex Factors