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Record W4416071369 · doi:10.1080/1357650x.2025.2584521

Handedness in association with same-sex sexual attraction in Iran

2025· article· en· W4416071369 on OpenAlexafffund
Mostafa Sadr-Bazzaz, Paul L. Vasey

Bibliographic record

VenueLaterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicHemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Lethbridge
KeywordsTransgenderSexual orientationBiological sexSame sexAssociation (psychology)

Abstract

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Previous research has shown that same-sex sexual orientation is associated with differences in handedness. This study investigated this relationship by comparing Iranian cisgender gynephilic males (n = 239), cisgender ambiphilic males (n = 108), cisgender androphilic males (n = 314), transgender androphilic males (n = 103), cisgender androphilic females (n = 250), cisgender ambiphilic females (n = 96), cisgender gynephilic females (n = 32), and transgender gynephilic females (n = 123). Using a modified version of Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, we compared laterality index scores, rates of non-right-handedness, and extreme right-handedness between groups. Also, two features of handedness including its direction (i.e., the dominant hand) and strength (i.e., the degree of variability in preferring one hand over the other) were explored. We found that compared to gynephilic males, cisgender ambiphilic males had elevated non-right-handedness, and cisgender and transgender androphilic males had elevated extreme right-handedness. Our results indicated that right-handed cisgender androphilic males and females had greater strength compared to right-handed cisgender gynephilic males, while right-handed cisgender ambiphilic females and transgender gynephilic females had weaker strength compared to right-handed cisgender androphilic females. This study highlighted the importance of studying handedness direction and strength to understand underlying developmental factors influencing sexual orientation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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