{"id":8107,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hand_preference\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:06","slug":"hand_preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hand_preference\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand preference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refers to the tendency to use one hand more often, or preferentially, for one or more activities. &nbsp;It may or may not typify preference for all tasks. &nbsp;Furthermore, it does not necessarily mean that the preferred hand is more proficient.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ambidexterity\">Ambidexterity<\/a>, <a href=\"bimanual_task\">Bimanual task<\/a>, Delivery position (presentation), <a href=\"finger-tapping_task\">Finger-tapping task<\/a>, <a href=\"hand_proficiency\">Hand proficiency<\/a>, <a href=\"handedness_-bimanual_versus_unimanual-\">Handedness (bimanual versus unimanual)<\/a>, <a href=\"handedness_-general-\">Handedness (general)<\/a>, <a href=\"lateral_bias\">Lateral bias<\/a>, <a href=\"laterality\">Laterality<\/a>, <a href=\"otoliths\">Otoliths<\/a>, <a href=\"peg-moving_task\">Peg-moving task<\/a>, <a href=\"unimanual_task\">Unimanual task<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refers to the tendency to use one hand more often, or preferentially, for one or more activities. &nbsp;It may or may not typify preference for all tasks. &nbsp;Furthermore, it does not necessarily mean that the preferred hand is more proficient.&nbsp; See Ambidexterity, Bimanual task, Delivery position (presentation), Finger-tapping task, Hand proficiency, Handedness (bimanual versus unimanual), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hand_preference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hand preference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}