Citation

Kagan J, Arcus D, Snidman N, Peterson E, Steinberg D, Rimm-Kaufman SE. Dev. Psychobiol. 1995; 28(8): 443-451.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-3870, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/dev.420280806

PMID

8582532

Abstract

Measures of the temperature of the fingertips of eighty-three 4-year-old children revealed an unexpected asymmetry in which the index finger of the left hand but the ring finger of the right hand were the coolest digits. In addition, a subset of 20 children who had the coolest right compared with the left ring finger were more fearful to unfamiliar events and also had a cooler right than left forehead at 21 months of age.

Language: en