| Title |
Handedness, Sexual Orientation, and Gender-Related Personality Traits in Men and Women
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Archives of Sexual Behavior, April 2003
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| DOI | 10.1023/a:1022444223812 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Richard A. Lippa |
| Abstract |
This study assessed large numbers of heterosexual and homosexual men and women on handedness and gender-related personality traits. Initial analyses employed a dichotomous measure of handedness (right-handed vs. non-right-handed). For men and women combined, homosexual participants had 50% greater odds of being non-right-handed than heterosexual participants, a statistically significant difference. Homosexual men had 82% greater odds of being non-right-handed than heterosexual men, a statistically significant difference, whereas homosexual women had 22% greater odds of being non-right-handed than heterosexual women, a nonsignificant difference. When participants were classified into five graduated categories of handedness, both men and women showed significant homosexual-heterosexual differences in handedness distributions. Within groups, handedness showed a number of weak but statistically significant associations with sex-typed occupational preferences, self-ascribed masculinity, and self-ascribed femininity, but not with instrumentality or expressiveness. Rates of non-right-handedness were virtually identical for heterosexual men and women, suggesting that sex differences in handedness may result from higher rates of homosexuality in men. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | 1 | 14% |
| Brazil | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Ireland | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 14% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2% |
| Poland | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 61 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 14% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 11% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 16 | 25% |
| Unknown | 5 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 31 | 48% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 9% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 6 | 9% |
Attention Score in Context
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#4,300,739
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#1,553
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#8,390
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#3
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