In 2025, several psychology studies aimed at understanding left-handedness were published. Here are the major takeaways from them.

A new study from Cornell University goes against the grain of popular thought, arguing that left-handed people aren’t necessarily more creative than their right-handed counterparts after all. It’s ...

An estimated 10% of people in the world are left-handed — and suffer from a societal bias than spans back centuries. Now, a new study published in the journal Psychological Bulletin has more bad news ...

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

A sweeping review of more than a century’s research upends the popular notion that left-handers are naturally more creative. Cornell psychologist Daniel Casasanto’s team sifted nearly a thousand ...

Joshua Kitonga, 34, is among the left-handed people who have faced challenges growing up. [Courtesy] Joshua Kitonga is among the 789 million people globally who are left-handed. Research shows ...

Have you ever wondered why some people are left-handed while most people are right-handed? The science behind this simple difference is more complicated than you might think! About 10.6 percent of ...