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British Journal of Psychology· 2026Q1

Of eyes and hands: Assessing the evolutionarily stable strategy of human handedness by means of eye‐tracking

Giulia Prete, Adolfo Di Crosta, Erika Marascia, Pasquale La Malva et al.

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Human handedness distribution (1:9 left- to right-handers) may be an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) where left-handers excel in competition and right-handers in cooperation. Eye-tracking during a 'friend or foe' task showed participants responded better to competitive stimuli and to stimuli matching their own handedness, supporting the ESS hypothesis.

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Field: Cognitive Neuroscience

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