title: handedness in engineering and psychology students.
abstract: Patterns of handedness were compared in engineering and psychology students using a questionnaire developed by Oldfield (1971). Engineering students are highly selected in terms of mathematico-spatial skills while psychology students are representative of typical undergraduate populations. In general the incidence of right- and left-handedness was according to expectation for the two groups. However, the engineering sample exhibited a significantly greater dextrality then the psychologists. Some implications of this finding were discussed.
mesh_terms: D004738:Engineering; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D011584:Psychology; D013037:Spatial Behavior