New research suggests left-handed people may be more competitive than right-handers, offering clues to an evolutionary advantage.

Why are 90% of people right-handed and 10% left-handed? A modification of the well-known fighting hypothesis aims to explain this pattern.

Left-handers may have competitive advantage over right-handed people - Sharper appetite for challenge observed among ...

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 ...

A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate ...

Both left-handedness and breast cancer are affected by sex hormones, and some studies suggested a link. Others, however, did ...

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 ...

Left-handedness and certain neurological disorders could go hand-in-hand, a new study revealed, though the researchers and others acknowledged potential limitations. While about 10% of people in the ...

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 ...

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 ...