TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1980//
TI  - Are left-handers less violent?
JO  - Journal of youth and adolescence
A1  - Andrew, J. M.
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
N2  - Previous work has shown that left-handers are overrepresented among juvenile offenders. The present study was designed to test whether left-handers are also overrepresented among violent juvenile offenders. However, opposite to expectation, the results showed that left-handed offenders scored lower than right-handed offenders on the Violence Scale, a measure of the violence potential of offenses read from the legal record. The unexpected effect was consistent over four sex-ethnicity subgroups. Possible explanations concerned sex-handedness interactions and hemisphericity effects.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0047-2891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02088375
ID  - ref1
ER  -