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Are right-handed people more creative?

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Are right-handed people more creative?

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CrowdScience listener Nyok, in South Sudan, is right-handed and has always felt very creative. He's also noticed that left-handed people seem to be more logical. He's wondering if this has anything to do with the idea that different sides of your brain can be dominant for different tasks. We covered the basics on hand preference three years ago, in a CrowdScience episode called ‘Why aren’t we all ambidextrous?’, so presenter Caroline Steel delves into the archive to find out about the evolution of hand preferences. Psychologist Sebastian Ocklenburg from MSH Medical School in Hamburg, Germany, and neuropsychologist Marietta Papadou Pastou from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athen…

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