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McManus and Humphrey's investigation into turning the left cheek in formal portraits1 from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries prompted me to check two 1972 school yearbooks for the same phenomenon. I found a similar tendency to expose the left side of the face more than the right. I found, however, no significant differences between sexes and seem to have discovered a difference between groups in left preference.
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Central Wesleyan College Central, Central, S. C., Centralian, 38 (1972).
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LABAR, M. Turning the Left Cheek Examined using Modern Photography. Nature 245, 338 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/245338a0
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