We address different people with different needs – we ask our boss for a promotion, and we ask our husband to buy a tour to Hawaii. Whether your request will be fulfilled depends not only on your arguments, but also on which ear - right or left - it is uttered.
Luca Tomasi and Daniele Marzoli, psychologists from the University of Gabriele d'Annunzio (Italy) conducted a series of experiments proving that people perceive requests differently when they hear them with their right or left ear. At the first stage of the experiment, scientists noted the behavior of people relaxing in nightclubs and trying to hear the words of the interlocutor who addressed them against the background of a deafening roar of music. In 206 out of 286 observed cases, the recipient turned to the speaker with his right ear. Scientists directly participated in the next part of the experiment. They approached the visitors of the club and in a low voice uttered a phrase that did not make sense, and then expressed a request to treat them to a cigarette. Almost 60% of the subjects turned to the experimenters with their right ear, trying to understand the meaning of their words. In the final part of the experiment, psychologists asked the rest of the club for a cigarette, deliberately speaking into their right or left ear. As a result, the request was fulfilled much more often by people who heard it from the right.
This phenomenon is explained by interhemispheric functional asymmetry. The left hemisphere, responsible for logic and speech, is connected to the right side of the body. Information from the right ear is more likely to enter the sound processing center and is more likely to be perceived. On the other hand, emotional information will be better perceived by the left ear, as it directly enters the center of perception of the intonation of speech and music. Thus, if you have weighty arguments for the boss, feel free to state them, taking a seat to his left in advance. But it’s better for a husband to sing about a fur coat. And in the right ear.
Source estet-portal.com
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