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Open AccessDoctor, builder, soldier, lawyer, teacher, dancer, shopkeeper, vet: exploratory study of which eleven-year olds would like to become a doctor
Very little is known about the extent to which eleven-year olds might consider a career in medicine. This exploratory study therefore asked children and their parents about medicine as a possible career, looki...
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Hand preference and hand skill in children with autism
Hand preference and hand skill was assessed in two broad age groups of children with autism, children with learning disabilities, and control schoolchildren. The first group comprised children ages 3–5 years a.....
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Are paw preference differences in HI and LO mice the result of specific genes or of heterosis and fluctuating asymmetry?
Collins (1985) has described two separate mouse strains, obtained by selective breeding, which differ in having high (HI) or low (LO) degrees of paw preference on a standard test. In this paper I argue that th...
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Writing hand position, birth stress, and familial factors
The incidence of birth stress was found to be slightly lower in individuals writing with an inverted hand position than in those writing with a normal position, a result in the opposite direction to that repor...
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The association between phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) tasting ability and psychometric variables
Tasters and nontasters of the chemical phenylthiocarbamide differ in personality and in IQ test scores. Using an undergraduate sample, nontasters were significantly more “placid” (rather than “apprehensive”) “...