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来源【一分钟心理】Right-Handers Tend Prefer The Right Side
译者peter wang
Recent research in the journal Psychological Science found that righties tend to prefer the right side of anything (spatially speaking) and lefties the left. Christie Nicholson reports
最新发表在心理科学杂志上的研究表明：无论对于什么东西，从空间上来说，右撇子更爱选右侧的，左撇子则爱选左侧的。
Here's a test. It's an odd question…but do you tend to prefer the right side or the left side of anything?
测试一个奇怪的问题...你对右侧或者左侧有偏好吗？对于任何事情。
It turns out that right-handed folks prefer the right and lefties prefer the left. The preference informs the choice of one of a pair of products, two job applicants, even a couple of alien creatures.
测试结果表明：右撇子更喜欢右边，左撇子喜欢左边。这种喜好影响到了对两个产品，两个求职者，甚至是两个外星生物的选择。
Researchers theorize that since people have better control of their dominant hand they unconsciously associate good things with what’s called their "fluent side of space." To test this idea, scientists studied the reaction of stroke patients who had lost the use of their so-called "fluent hand." These patients flipped the natural bias and associated "good" with the side that they were then now forced to use.
研究人员给出了这样的理论：因为人们对他们有优势手的控制的更好，所以他们下意识把好的事情跟被称作他们的“熟练的那一面”联系在一起。为了测试这个想法，科学家们研究了中风病人的反应，他们所谓的“熟练的手”已经失去了作用。这些患者们原来喜欢用的手在不停的抖，他们把“好”跟他们现在所被迫使用的手的那侧相关联。
Even more striking, the same results were found when healthy right-handed subjects were forced to become lefties. They had to wear a bulky ski glove on their agile hand while arranging dominos for 12 minutes. The subjects were then moved to another room and in a separate experiment they showed lefty bias, choosing to place items considered to be "good" in a box on the left.
更能说明问题的是，当健康的右撇子实验对象被迫使用左手时，得出了同样的结论。实验对象们被迫在他们灵活的那只手上戴上一只笨重的滑雪手套，并在这样的情况下排列12分钟的多米诺骨牌。然后，这些实验对象们被带到另外一个房间，在一个各自独立的实验中，他们显得更喜欢左侧，他们选择把认为“好”的东西放进箱子的左侧。
We'd like to feel we make choices based on solid reasoning. But that’s not necessarily right. Or is it left?
我们愿意相信我们所做的选择是基于坚实的理由的。但是这并不一定正确，也许左边的比较好？
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