Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words

Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words

Recent studies have provided evidence for an association between valence and left/right modulated by handedness, which is predicted by the body-specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) and also reflected in response times. We investigated whether such a response facilitation can also be observed wit...

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Main Authors: Irmgard ede la Vega, Julia eGraebe, Leonie eHärtner, Carolin eDudschig, Barbara eKaup
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
handedness
embodiment
emotional valence
fluency
Body-specificity hypothesis
footedness
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00292/full

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