Preliminary findings: Preferences of right-handed people for food images oriented to the left vs. right side

It is well known that aesthetic preferences regarding lateral biases are influenced by left/right reading habits, as people who read text left-to-right have been shown to prefer oriented images. However, objects more strongly associated with actual in daily life and the movements used interact such less understood. Images of foods may trigger cognitive pathways related grasping bringing food mouth, which influence Participants were presented successive pairs images asked choose preferred image. They also object not easily graspable, landscapes; these differentiated same way Each pair consisted but at a different angle. direction made it easier grasp bring mouth right hand (p < 0.001). In conditions involving landscape difficult grasp, there no significant differences participants' > 0.05). From this study’s results, can be concluded orientation influences preferences, manner makes them easy mouth.