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The relationship between a trait measure of differential hemispheric activation and obsessive and hysterical personality styles was determined. Significant correlations were found between the right activators and the hysterical scale and between left activators and the obsessive scale. Individual and familial sinistrality attenuated the correlations.
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Dunivin, D., Zenhausern, R. Differential hemispheric activation and handedness and hysterical and obsessive personality styles. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 17, 23–25 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333655
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