Being a righty or lefty matters in mental-health treatment
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(STUDYFINDS) — Since the 1970s, it has been generally understood by neurologists and psychologists that different emotions come from different hemispheres of the brain. “Approach” emotions linked to how we engage with the world — happiness, pride, or anger, for example — usually come from the left side of the brain. On the other hand, those associated with avoidance, such as disgust and fear, come from the right side. Decades of research into this concept has informed mental health treatment, but there’s one problem: it was conducted almost entirely on right-handed people.
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