{"id":8314,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/lateral_bias\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:22","slug":"lateral_bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/lateral_bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Lateral bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A generic term referring to any kind of bias favouring one side of&nbsp;the body over the other. &nbsp;It includes biases in head-turning and hand and arm use as well as biases of the feet, legs, eyes, ears, and even side-of-mouth for chewing. &nbsp;While lateral biases characterize much of human behavior, if too inflexible they can create problems in certain endeavours, one example being proneness to injuries in professional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iadms.org\/associations\/2991\/files\/info\/Bulletin_for_Teachers_3-1_pp9-12_Kimmerle.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.iadms.org\/associations\/2991\/files\/info\/Bulletin_for_Teachers_3-1_pp9-12_Kimmerle.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dance<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ambidexterity\">Ambidexterity<\/a>, <a href=\"bimanual_task\">Bimanual task<\/a>, <a href=\"hand_preference\">Hand preference<\/a>, <a href=\"hand_proficiency\">Hand proficiency<\/a>, Handedness (bimanual vs unimanual), <a href=\"handedness_-general-\">Handedness (general)<\/a>, <a href=\"laterality\">Laterality<\/a>, Peg-mving task, <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>A generic term referring to any kind of bias favouring one side of&nbsp;the body over the other. &nbsp;It includes biases in head-turning and hand and arm use as well as biases of the feet, legs, eyes, ears, and even side-of-mouth for chewing. &nbsp;While lateral biases characterize much of human behavior, if too inflexible they can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/lateral_bias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lateral bias&#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-8314","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\/8314","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=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}