Right-Handed People Don't Like Reggae, study finds

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Right-Handed People Don't Like Reggae, Jazz: Study

First Posted: 11/17/11 09:30 AM ETUpdated: 11/17/11 09:30 AM ET



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If Bob Marley's alleged left-handedness and Musical Youth's preference to pass the dutchie to the left are any indication, researchers at the University of Toledo may be on to something.
A new study out of the Ohio school reveals that people with a strong preference for using their right hand -- to write, throw a ball, brush your teeth and so on -- are less keen on "unpopular" genres of music, especially bluegrass and reggae. (Jazz and world were also labeled as "unpopular" in the study, based on record industry sales.)
According to the research, published in the journal Psychology of Music, it's because righties have a harder time updating their beliefs (or in this case, their musical preferences) and tend to stick with things they know. "Right-handedness is associated with decreased cognitive flexibility and decreased tendencies to update beliefs, arising from decreased interhemispheric interaction," the study says.
What that means, more simply, is that right-handers may not be as in touch with the processes controlled by the right side of the brain, things like updating thoughts and beliefs and seeing things in new ways. The left hemisphere, alternatively, tends to stick with what's tried and true.
Mix-handers are more in touch with the right side of their brain and therefore more open to different types of music, study author Stephen Christman told msnbc.com, noting that being mix-handedness is not the same as being ambidextrous, but simply using a non-dominant hand for at least two activities.
So what do right-handers like? The top three choices among the college students surveyed were R&B, modern pop and alternative rock.

[Lazie]

... bluegrass .... agreed.

[Gamma]

so ... is mostly left handed people in ja like reggae? and finally ... UNPOPULAR genre of music? how dem define dat? again bluegrass, i can understand ....

[Hortical]

This report is a head scratcher....

[Exile]

BTW which hand yu using to scratch?

[Assasin]

a nuff people have two left hands it seems like.

[Exile]

So Historian have 2 right hand?

[Mosiah]

woie!! LOL!

[Historian]

Drinking and Posting....

So Historian have 2 right hand?

Damn! This is why we (you) shouldn’t drink heavily and then post comments on Internet forums!

Based on posts I have made over the years, from JBC Top 10 charts from the 1960s to information on reggae artists, I am without question the single biggest overt supporter of reggae music on this forum! This “two right hand” comment is therefore excused based on obvious drunkenness by the poster.

[Exile]

I don't drink.
On Mondays....
Well...Historian you missed my point though although I was just ribbing you. There are some characteristics of right-handedness according to the article that I thought may have affforded me the luxury of suggesting you having two right hands....check them out:

According to the research, published in the journal Psychology of Music, it's because righties have a harder time updating their beliefs (or in this case, their musical preferences) and tend to stick with things they know. "Right-handedness is associated with decreased cognitive flexibility and decreased tendencies to update beliefs, arising from decreased interhemispheric interaction," the study says.
What that means, more simply, is that right-handers may not be as in touch with the processes controlled by the right side of the brain, things like updating thoughts and beliefs and seeing things in new ways. The left hemisphere, alternatively, tends to stick with what's tried and true.

I am sure you now understand.