title: Cerebral lateralization and personality style.
abstract: Hysterical and obsessive-compulsive style subjects, as determined by a modified Rorschach test and the Wechslar Adult Intelligence Scale Comprehension subtest, were questioned in a face-to-face format where lateral eye movements were surreptitiously observed. Only right-handed subjects were used. It has been argued that lateral eye movements index immediate hemispheric activation after questions--the first such eye movement being a direction opposite to the putatively activated hemisphere. There was significantly more left-looking among the hysterical subjects than among the obsessive-compulsive style subjects.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003193:Compulsive Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011340:Problem Solving