Lateral eye-movements, field dependence and denial.
Conjugate lateral eye-movements can be used to classify some people into two distinct groups (left-movers and right-movers), who differ on various cognitive and personality variables reflecting stylistic reliance on the cognitive mode of a single hemisphere. In this study left-movers relied more heavily on denial as a defense. Field dependence tended to be related to both denial and left eye-movements by males but not females. The results are discussed in terms of a possible neuropsychological substrate for denial.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011340:Problem Solving