72 percent of people prefer to listen with their right ear.
Nearly three-quarters of people turn their right ears toward a person speaking, according to a recent study by Luca Tommasi and Daniele Marzoli of the University Gabriele d’Annunzio in Chieti, Italy. The reason? The left side of the brain (and right ear) specializes in language processing, while the right side of the brain (and left ear) excels at picking up emotional cues. Tommasi and Marzoli also found that requests spoken into right ears generated more positive responses than those uttered into left ears. Remember that when you ask your boss for a raise.
