Article
A study of leg-crossing in a German sample.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur - 1 Sept 1995
Reiss M
Abstract excerpt
When a person is asked to cross their flexed legs then one thigh crossed over the other. This paper reviews the previous literature on leg crossing, and reports new data. In this study about 62% of the population (n = 292) are right leg-crossers, 26% are left leg-crossers, and the remaining 12% report that they have no preference or are indifferent. The incidence of left leg-crossing differs between the sexes,...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Female
- Functional Laterality
- Germany
- Humans
- Leg
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype