Left-Handers Are More Competitive Than Right-Handers |
The "fighting hypothesis" suggests left-handed people are more successful in some competitive sports.
A new study has found that left-handed people show higher levels of hypercompetitive orientation.
Competitiveness may help explain the evolution of left-handedness.
Most people are right-handed, but 10.6 percent are left-handed. There is a long-standing debate on why this specific 90-to-10 pattern between right-handedness and left-handedness has been pretty much stable across centuries and countries. One perspective from evolutionary psychology is that both right-handedness and left-handedness have evolutionary advantages.
The 'fighting hypothesis' and the evolution of handedness
Right-handers may have an advantage in some cooperative behaviors, such as learning to craft something based on somebody else modeling how to do it. As most teachers are likely right-handers,........