How do you clasp your hands?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m curious about this because I noticed that I always clasp my hands the same way: fingers interlaced with the left forefinger being on top. My wife does it with her right forefinger on top. We’re both right-handed. So here are the questions:

  1. Right forefinger on top, or left forefinger on top?
  2. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
  3. Male or female?
  4. Do you consider yourself right brain dominant (visual, intuitive, creative thinking): feelings visualization; imagination; intuition; rhythm; holistic thinking; arts?
  5. Or left brain dominant (verbal, analytical, orderly): thinking in words; sequencing; linear thinking; mathematics; facts; logic?

As mentioned, I do it with left finger on top, right handed, male, and left brain dominant. For what it’s worth, when I clasp them the other way, it starts to really bother me after a short time.

2

Left finger on top.
Right handed.
Male.
I’m not big on the left brain/right brain thing (hard to demonstrate with actual evidence and I’m not at all sure how useful a construct it is anyway) but the pseudo-tests I’ve taken would say left brain.

3

Left finger on top.
Left handed.
Female.
I would say I am naturally right brained.
But, I have taught myself a few left brained things.
BTW, I have 7 sibs we are all sorts weird when it comes to handedness. I have one brother, the eldest sib, who is truly righthanded. The rest of us are left-handed and ambidextrous to some degree. My Mom was left handed.
My 3 kids only one is righthanded.

4

Right finger on top.
Right handed.
Male.
Right brain dominant, though the left is as strong in certain contexts.

5

Left forefinger on top.
Right handed
Male
Like Ulf, I’m not sure about the left/right brain thing, but I generally think of myself as fairly analytical/orderly, so I guess left brain.

6

Left forefinger on top ( I tried the other way and it felt WEIRD)
right handed, oh so right handed
female
not sure of the L v R brain thing but I am going to go with R as it seems to fit a bit more.

7

Left on top.
Right handed.
Male.
No idea what side brain I am. Whenever I try to figure it out, my brain starts hurting and I think about something else.

8

Left on top
Right Handed
Left Brained
Female

And, though you didn’t ask it, left eye dominant.

Is it just me, or did anyone else find the OPs description of the position kinda weird. That is, my left forefinger isn’t in any way on top. My left thumb is on top.

9

Left finger on top
Right handed male.
Left brain dominant.

What is the sound of one hand clasping?

10

Yeah, I thought of that when I woke up this morning. Also, why didn’t I call it the index finger? :smack:

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I would have described it as left thumb on top. Then interlaced. The other way feels weird. And I am a right-handed male. Judging from the fact that I prefer algebra to geometry I infer I am left-brained.

12

Right finger on top.
Right handed.
Male 57yo

ehhh… I’m a computer programmer by trade, which would put me in the left brain category. But, I’m pretty good at drawing and am teaching myself how to play guitar. But I can see both drawing and music as very mathematical. I used to be a draftsman. Still am when I need to be. I guess I’m left brained.

Let me think about it a bit :slight_smile:

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Genetics of hand clasping.

I am female, right handed, right thumb/index finger on top, my husband is left handed and has left digits on top.

Not sure about brain dominance.

Eta: I consider myself creative, I write- but I think in words. I am also analytical at times… But don’t really enjoy math. Not a numbers person; i love language.

14

Interesting. So another question for those responding: Do you also, when folding your arms, do it with the same preference as your hand clasping, i.e., if you do left thumb over right, do you also fold left arm over right? Left ankle over right?

I had thought perhaps that brain side dominance might have been an indicator of this activity preference, but it doesn’t seem to be (at least in this small sample). Like all people, I have elements of both brain hemispheres, though I think I’m more left-brain than right, and my wife is the opposite.

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The left-brain/right-brain hypothesis was formed when neuroscience was in its infancy. Modern techniques have not shown (or refuted) that differences in ability and preference for analytical vs. creative thinking, etc. are correlated with actual left-hemisphere/right-hemisphere dominance: For example: An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Not to mention that the criteria to place people in either category are only a little better than astrology in the first place.

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What do you think accounts for the hand-clasping, arm folding trait?

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What about simple body shape? Lots of kids, for instance, have one foot measure half a size bigger than the other (I remember I did, but I can’t now tell which is supposed to be bigger so I suppose I grew out of it)

My three foldings are inconsistent:
Left thumb over right thumb - always
Right arm over left - always
Right leg over left - mostly.

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Neither. How can either of those choices even happen? It’s right THUMB on top, then left thumb. Right forefinger is third, left forefinger fourth. The other option is left thumb, right thumb, left forefinger, right forefinger.

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Thanks for clarifying something that’s already been clarified.

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There definately are preferred positions that the individual will go to. I have asked everyone I have talked to today to do the hand thing, and they always have a preference. Well, except for my 3yo granddaughter, who said NO! when I asked her to do it.
Crossing my ankles doesn’t work for me. I had a broken ankle once and spent alot of time with the cast on my left foot propped on my right foot. Crossing my arms is right over left.