A cross-cultural comparison of pressures to switch left-hand writing: Brazil versus Canada

Laterality

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-291

  Porac, Clare ^a   Martin, William Lee Berdel ^b  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Hand preference; Laterality; Switching hand preference

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAZIL; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIALIZATION;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CANADA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COERCION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34247274241     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500701269462     Document Type: Article

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