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The Qwerty Effect (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 days ago by HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jasmin and Casasanto (2012) found that words that contain more right-hand letters are perceived more positively than those with more left-hand letters

But I thought everyone loved asdf

[–] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Idk the validity of the research that they did. Like how could they tally up everyone's opinions of these things. They could only have a large group but that isn't always accurate. To be fully believable, they would have needed hundreds of thousands of people surveyed. Also, I find it hard to believe that a word is perceived positively or negatively separate from its actual definition.