Mixed-handed persons are more easily persuaded and are more gullible: Interhemispheric interaction and belief updating

Laterality

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 403-426

  Christman, Stephen D ^a   Henning, Bradley R ^a   Geers, Andrew L ^a   Propper, Ruth E ^b   Niebauer, Christopher L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b MERRIMACK COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTITUDE; CHARACTER; CULTURE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS;

EID: 51249110812     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500802079646     Document Type: Article

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