Selected Publications
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Symmetry and Asymmetry Effects on Aesthetic Preference in Faces and Objects
Cárdenas, R.A., & Harris, L.J. (2007). Do women's preferences for symmetry change across the menstrual cycle? Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 96-105. [ PDF ]
Cárdenas, R.A., & Harris. L.J. (2006). Symmetrical designs enhance the attractiveness of faces and abstract designs. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27, 1-18. [ PDF ]
Lateralization and Processing of Faces and Emotions
Blaskey, L.G., Harris, L.J., & Nigg, J.T. (2008). Are sensation seeking and emotion processing related to or distinct from cognitive control in children with ADHD. Child Neuropsychology, 14, Isssue 4, 353-371.
Carbary, T.J., Almerigi, J.B., & Harris, L.J. (2002). Task difficulty reduces the left visual hemispace bias for judgments of emotion in chimeric faces. Brain and Cognition, 48 (2/3), 304-311.
Carbary, T.J., Almerigi, J.B., & Harris, L.J. (2001). The left visual hemispace bias for the perception of chimeric faces: A further test of the difficulty-of-discrimination hypothesis. Brain and Cognition, 46, 57-62.
Fogel, T.G., & Harris, L.J. (2001). Do unilateral right and left facial contractions induce positive and negative emotion? A further test of Schiff and Lamon's (1989) hypothesis. Brain and Cognition, 47, 513-524.
Harris, L.J., & Almerigi, J.B. (2000). Finding the mind's construction in the face. Review of A.W. Young, Face and Mind. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 45, 223-225.
Carbary, T.J., Almerigi, J.B., & Harris, L.J. (1999). The left visual hemispace bias for the perception of composite faces: A test of the difficulty-of-discrimination hypothesis. Brain and Cognition, 40, No. 1, 71-75.
Harris, L.J. (1999).Early theory and research on hemispheric specialization. Invited article for issue theme, "Is schizophrenia a lateralized brain disorder?" Schizophrenia Bulletin, 25, No. 1, 11-39.
Harris, L.J., & Snyder, P.J. (1992).Subjective mood state and perception of emotion in chimeric faces. Cortex, 28, 471-481.
Lateral Biases for Cradling and Holding Human Infants
Harris, L.J. (2007). Babes in arms: studies in laterality.In H.Cohen & B. Stemmer (Eds.),Consciousness and Cognition: Fragments of Mind and Brain (pp. 83-108). New York: Elsevier.
Harris, L.J., Spradlin, Jr., M. P., & Almerigi, J.B. (2007). Mothers' and fathers' lateral biases for holding their newborn infants: A study of images from the World Wide Web. Laterality, 12, 64-86.
Harris, L.J., & Almerigi, J.B. (2005). The left-side bias for holding human infants: an everyday directional asymmetry in the natural environment. (Commentary on G. Vallortigara & L.J. Rogers, Survival with an asymmetrical brain: Advantages and disadvantages of cerebral lateralization). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 600-601.
Weatherill, R.P., Almerigi, J.B., Levendosky, A.A., Bogat, G.A., von Eye, A., & Harris, L.J. (2004). A test of the role of depression in side of infant-holding: A community sample of mothers with their own infants. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28, 421-427.
Almerigi, J.B., Carbary, T.J., & Harris, L.J. (2002). Most adults show opposite-side biases in the imagined holding of objects and infants. Brain and Cognition, 48 (2/3), 258-263.
Erber, N., Almerigi, J.B., Carbary, T.J., & Harris, L.J. (2002). The contribution of postural bias to lateral preferences for holding human infants. Brain and Cognition, 48 (2/3), 352-356.
Harris, L.J., Almerigi, J.B., Carbary, T.J., & Fogel, T.G. (2001). Left-side infant-holding: A test of the hemispheric arousal-attentional hypothesis. Brain and Cognition, 46, 159-165.
Harris, L.J., Almerigi, J.B., & Kirsch, E.A. (2000). Side-preference in adults for holding infants: contributions of sex and handedness in a test of imagination. Brain and Cognition, 43, 246-252.
Handedness
Harris, L.J. (2008).In fencing, what gives left-handers the edge? Some views from the present and the distant past. Laterality (in press).
Harris, L.J. (2008).On teaching infants "the right use of their hands": Advice and reassurance from Mary Palmer Tyler's The Maternal Physician (1811). Laterality (in press).
Harris, L.J. (2005). The development of handedness.In B. Hopkins (Ed.) (2005), Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development (pp. 321-326). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Harris, L.J. (2003). What to do about your child's handedness? Advice from five eighteenth-century authors, and some questions for today. Laterality, 8, 99-120.
Harris, L.J. (2000). On the evolution of handedness: a speculative analysis of Darwin's views and a review of early studies of handedness in "the nearest allies of man." Brain and Language (special issue on "The Evolutionary Foundations of Cerebral Specialization for Higher Cognitive Functions,"73,132-188.
Kang, Y.,& Harris,L.J.(2000). Handedness and footedness in Korean college students. Brain and Cognition,43,268-274.
Snyder, P.J., & Harris, L.J.(1997). Lexicon size and footedness in the African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus). Neuropsychologia, 35, 919-926.
Harris, L. J. (1993). Do right-handers live longer than left-handers? A commentary on Coren and Halpern's "Left-handedness: A marker for decreased longevity." Psychological Bulletin, 114, 203-234; 242-247.
Harris, L.J. (1993). Handedness in apes and monkeys: Some views from the past. In J. Ward, & W. Hopkins (Eds.), Primate laterality: Current behavioral evidence of primate asymmetries, (pp. 1-41). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Harris, L.J., & Carlson, D. F. (1993). Hand preference for visually-directed reaching in human infants and adults. In J. Ward, & W. Hopkins (Eds.), Primate Laterality: Current Behavioral Evidence of Primate Asymmetries, (pp. 285-305). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Harris, L.J. (1992). Left-handedness. In I. Rapin, & S.J. Segalowitz (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology, Child Neuropsychology, Vol. 6, Section 10, Part 1 (pp. 145-208) (Series editors: F. Boller & J. Grafman). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.
Harris, L.J. (1991). The human infant in studies of lateralization of function. A historical perspective. In H.E. Fitzgerald et al. (Eds.), Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics, Vol. 5 (pp. 129-154). New York: Plenum.
Harris, L.J. (1990). Cultural influences on handedness: Historical and contemporary evidence. In S. Coren (Ed.), Left-handedness: Behavioral implications and anomalies. Advances in Psychology Series, Vol. 67 (pp. 195-258). Elsevier Science Publishers, B. V. North Holland Book Series.
Harris, L.J. (1990).Are spatial abilities poorer in 'forced' left-handers? If so, why? Developmental Neuropsychology, 6, 57-60.