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The incidence of birth stress was found to be slightly lower in individuals writing with an inverted hand position than in those writing with a normal position, a result in the opposite direction to that reported by Searleman, Porac, and Coren (1982). A familial study suggested that an inverted writing hand position was primarily related to maternal (but not paternal) writing hand position, suggesting a modeling or imitative origin, rather than a genetic basis for writing position.
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McManus, I.C. Writing hand position, birth stress, and familial factors. Current Psychology 4, 195–203 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686570
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