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Handedness and sleep duration.

R A Hicks·R J Pellegrini·J Hawkins
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The differences in habitual sleep duration and absolute deviations in habitual sleep duration from the normative mean between 60 left-, 36 mixed- and 125 right-handed college students were tested. It was found that mixed-handers tend to sleep less and as a group show significantly greater deviations in habitual sleep durations than either left- or right-handers. The heuristic value of this relationship for future research was discussed briefly.

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R A Hicks, R J Pellegrini, J Hawkins. 1979. Handedness and sleep duration.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-9452(79)80036-2

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