RT Journal
A1 Smokler IA, Shevrin H
T1 CErebral lateralization and personality style
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1979
FD August 1
VO 36
IS 9
SP 949
OP 954
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780090035004
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780090035004
AB • Hysterical and obsessive-compulsive style subjects, as determined by a modified Rorschach test and the Wechslar Adult Intelligence Scale Comprehension subtest, were questioned in a face-to-face format where lateral eye movements were surreptitiously observed. Only right-handed subjects were used. It has been argued that lateral eye movements index immediate hemispheric activation after questions—the first such eye movement being in a direction opposite to the putatively activated hemisphere. There was significantly more left-looking among the hysterical subjects than among the obsessive-compulsive style subjects.