Hand Preference, Depression, and Anxiety

Individuals who are depressed often lose their desire to approach other people or to engage in positive situations and activities. Recent research at The New School for Social Research indicates that the process of motivation at the brain level may differ for right-handed and left-handed people.

Finding That Emotion Is Reversed In Left-Handers' Brains Could Lead To New Treatment For Anxiety, Depression

Compassion and Socioeconomic Status

Differences in how rich and poor people respond to others in need is a popular theme in fiction, with the rich mostly shown as indifferent and the poor mostly shown as generous and willing to help. In real life, there are certainly a wide range of behaviors shown by people of all socioeconomic statuses when a situation of need arises.

Researchers at UC Berkeley have found, however, that individuals of a lower socioeconomic status may show a stronger compassion response at physiological and emotional levels.

Lower Classes Quicker To Show Compassion In The Face Of Suffering