An experiment was conducted to determine right-left preferences in apartment floor plans. Subjects presented mirror image pairs of floor plans demonstrated a strong tendency to select those floor plans with the living room in the far right, rather than the far left, corner. A theoretical interpretation and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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