Classroom Seating and Functional Brain Asymmetry.

This study examined the relationship between functional brain asymmetry, as measured by the characteristic direction of eye movements in response to face-to-face questioning, and sitting on the left or the right side of a classroom: 74 undergraduate students, whose laterality had previously been ascertained, participated. As predicted, left movers preferred to sit on the right side, and right movers on the left. A significant proportion of the subjects who indicated a differential seating preference for hard compared to soft topics, placed themselves more to the left for the former. The results are congruent with other findings comparing right movers and left movers on a variety of personality measures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)