Political Left and Right: Our Hands-On Logic

The origins and immediate vitality of the left/right divide which emerged in French revolutionary politics from 1789 can only be understood against the background of a much older classification dynamic based on the primacy of the right hand, first described by Robert Hertz in 1909. This dynamic infu...

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Main Authors: Frits Bienfait, Walter E. A. van Beek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/323