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If you want someone to comply with a request does it matter which of their ears you speak into?

Eric Barker
December 20, 2010

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Making a request into someone’s right ear is more effective:

Hemispheric asymmetries and side biases have been studied in humans mostly in laboratory settings, and evidence obtained in naturalistic settings is scarce. We here report the results of three studies on human ear preference observed during social interactions in noisy environments, i.e., discotheques. In the first study, a spontaneous right-ear preference was observed during linguistic exchange between interacting individuals. This lateral bias was confirmed in a quasi-experimental study in which a confederate experimenter evoked an ear-orienting response in bystanders, under the pretext of approaching them with a whispered request. In the last study, subjects showed a greater proneness to meet an experimenter’s request when it was directly addressed to the right rather than the left ear. Our findings are in agreement both with laboratory studies on hemispheric lateralization for language and approach/avoidance behavior in humans and with animal research. The present work is one of the few studies demonstrating the natural expression of hemispheric asymmetries, showing their effect in everyday human behavior.

Source: “Side biases in humans (Homo sapiens): three ecological studies on hemispheric asymmetries” from Naturwissenschaften, Volume 96, Number 9, 1099-1106

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Title If you want someone to comply with a request does it matter which of their ears you speak into?
Author Eric Barker
Date December 20, 2010 4:18 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Blog bakadesuyo
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