Further analysis of previously reported data showed a measure of Fatalism from an interview about midlife crises to be significantly correlated with average delay in reaction time after unexpected preparatory signals only on visuospatial tasks in the performance of which the right hemisphere and then arousal are inferred to play a dominant role. Should this explanation hold, it provides evidence for the putative influence of lateralized cerebral functioning and divided control by subcortical activation systems.
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