The left-cradling bias and its relationship with empathy and depression

I always thought it was due to majority right handedness, holding with the left arm leaving the right hand free for more complex tasks. That was my experience as a righty. My wife is a lefty and used to do the opposite.

"Analogous considerations can be made for the differentiation between functional (i.e., “cradling-while-doing-something-else” such as giving the infant a pacifier) and non-functional (cradling with the sole purpose of soothing/interacting with the infant) holding/cradling as related to handedness, which again we did not consider for the sake of simplicity."

Accounting for something as potentially confounding as handedness would have made this study ... too complicated?

Maybe connected to the right leaning of kisses. You lean right and look to the left. Just like you look left when your babys face is to the left.

A hypothesis...

N=50

"science"