Arts and Humanities

Abstract: Mental health of adolescents is a major global public health priority with about one in seven adolescents suffering from mental disorders. Despite India’s adolescent population being the world’s largest, there is a dearth of rigorously evaluated and culturally adapted school-based mental health programmes. A quasi-experimental time series design (O₁→X→O₂→O₃→O₄) was used to recruit 200 adolescents of 12–16 years of age through probability stratified random sampling from a higher secondary school. Mental health characteristics were assessed using a validated 80-item Mental Health Status Scale, which included five domains physical, intellectual, psychological, familial, and social. Data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA, MANOVA and one way ANOVA. Trial was registered with Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI/2026/04/107261). Baseline results showed that mental health characteristics were mostly poor, with 100% of the participants scoring poorly in the intellectual domain. "Post-intervention, participants reported a statistically significant, very large increase in overall mental health scores (mean gain = 18.53, 95% CI: 17.98–19.08; F(1,199) = 3872.54, p < 0.001, Cohen's d = 6.28) and showed statistically significant improvement across all five domains (p < 0.001). However, the social domain had the lowest mean post-test score (M = 4.77). Female adolescents and adolescents aged 14–15 years improved significantly more than their male counterparts (p < 0.001 for both). The findings provide evidence for the effectiveness of a school-based life skills programme for improving multiple dimensions of adolescent mental health and support its integration into school curricula in India as a scalable and cost-effective strategy.

Abstract: Contemporary religious education encounters young people whose identities are formed amid vulnerability, social fragmentation, moral plurality, and digitally mediated narratives of self and world. This conceptual article develops wounded hope as a distinctive hermeneutical and pedagogical construct for religious education (RE). Wounded hope names an orientation that holds truthful memory of irreversible harm together with an ethically open future in which neither identity nor agency is exhausted by the wound. Paul Ricoeur supplies the principal hermeneutical architecture through narrative identity, mimesis, memory, recognition, and refiguration. Gabriel Marcel, Jürgen Moltmann, Paulo Freire, and Thomas Groome deepen and correct that architecture through philosophical hope, eschatological contradiction, critical praxis, and shared Christian praxis. Recent scholarship on Ricoeur, vulnerability, trauma-responsive education, youth flourishing, church-school climate, and digital religion is brought into dialogue with these foundational sources. The article argues that wounded hope is not optimism, resilience, post-traumatic growth, or a theology of redemptive suffering. It further contends that forgiveness in RE must remain a religious and ethical possibility rather than a compulsory educational outcome, and must be distinguished from forgetting, excusing, reconciliation, restored trust, and the suspension of justice. Developed from within a Catholic-Christian horizon while remaining dialogically open to wider RE, the article proposes a Narrative Pedagogy of Wounded Hope structured by five commitments: narrative hospitality, hermeneutical dialogue, critical discernment, hopeful refiguration, and ethical agency. Reflexively, the proposal also examines its own risks: theological overreach, therapeutic colonisation of education, the privileging of coherence, and the temptation to make hope itself coercive. Wounded hope is therefore offered not as a technique for repairing learners but as a disciplined educational disposition for inhabiting unfinished stories truthfully, critically, and hopefully.

Abstract: This article examines the existential predicament of the digital age through the lens of Paul Tillich’s theory of ultimate concern. While traditional ethical principles often prove abstract when confronted with algorithmic power, an existential inquiry reveals a deeper crisis: digital technology is systematically eroding the essential determinations of the human being—freedom, wholeness, and a unified self-awareness—which are the subjective prerequisites for ultimate concern. Specifically, algorithmic power disciplines choice, scoring mechanisms fragment the life narrative, and virtual identity dissolves the embodied anchor of the self. This leads to a double paralysis of the existential imperative of seeking life and avoiding death: the source of motivation is exhausted by the disenchantment of death and the transfer of existential anxiety, while the direction of pursuit is collapsed by the virtualisation of existence and digital idolatry. To resolve this, the article proposes a two-fold path of existential practice: first, reclaiming the subjective determinations of the human within technological enclosures; second, reconstructing the dialectical movement of seeking life and avoiding death. By transforming digital anxiety into existential anxiety and discerning ultimate symbols from digital idols, individuals can maintain a dimension of transcendence and affirm their humanity in-spite-of the pressures of the system through the courage to be.

Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) intensifies a long-standing question for religious education (RE): what is education for when information, explanation, and polished synthesis are available on demand? Using Catholic religious education (CRE) as a situated case, this conceptual article argues that wisdom should orient RE without displacing knowledge. Drawing on virtue ethics, Catholic thought, philosophy of education, and recent scholarship on digital religion and AI, it develops four dimensions of wisdom-centered RE: epistemic judgment, practical-moral discernment, relational responsibility, and tradition-situated orientation toward ultimate goods. It concludes with implications for curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, teacher formation, and interfaith and public RE.

Abstract: The rapid ascent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has empirically demonstrated that complex syntactic reasoning and semantic manipulation do not require subjective experience (qualia). This paper proposes the Ontological Interface Hypothesis (OIH), a triadic framework that decouples cognition, consciousness, and biological self-preservation. We argue that while cognition is an algorithmic, substrate-independent process susceptible to the Data Processing Inequality and entropic degradation (Model Collapse), consciousness and biological negentropy may involve non-algorithmic aspects of a more fundamental ontological layer. We model the thalamocortical complex not as an additional computational engine, but as a phase-synchronized biological interface connecting the algorithmic substrate to this deeper realm. Furthermore, we address standard functionalist counter-arguments, suggesting that artificial agents lacking such an interface are likely to remain prone to cognitive drift and physical degradation, functioning primarily as deterministic proxies of human intent rather than autonomous subjective entities.

Abstract: False statements produced by a language model arrive with the same confident form as true ones, with no mark to guide verification, and this indistinction bears fully on the university classroom. This article reviews the peer-reviewed literature under a declared protocol that retained thirty-two works and one continuously updated resource, drawn from technical research on detection, epistemology, cognitive psychology, critical thinking, and educational research. The argument starts from an epistemic and functional characterization of the system, to which we attribute the lack of access of its own to the output and of a criterion of truth of its own, whence it follows that every correction comes from a reference external to the generative process, which we call external anchoring. On that basis, the classes of divergence are ordered according to whether they are measured against facts about the world or against the material supplied by the user, the detection procedures are reviewed together with their declared limits, and four criteria applicable from a public interface are formulated, grouped into two families and crossed with the typology in a table. The closing sections examine two effects on the reader, cognitive satisfaction and the externalization of epistemic vigilance, and the institutional conditions that their correction demands.

Abstract: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre (1989) places a disputed blood cult, an armless martyr, and a mother–son performance at the center of a narrative of violence and release. This article examines how these religious images acquire authority through their relationships with bodies and repeated actions. Bringing ritual theory into dialogue with material approaches to religion and film color, it develops chromatic ritualization as a term for the way recurring colors connect sacred objects, bodily roles, and obligations across changing narrative situations. A qualitative analysis follows the red pool at the destroyed shrine, Concha’s identification with the wounded saint, Fénix’s performance as his mother’s arms, and the removal of his red artificial nails before the final surrender. The argument is that color helps transfer authority from a contested religious site to an intimate arrangement in which devotion becomes bodily obedience. The ending interrupts this arrangement without establishing an unmediated or entirely autonomous self. Liberation appears instead as the possibility of refusing one command while entering other relationships of assistance and accountability. This reading locates the film’s religious significance in the reorganization of embodied agency, while distinguishing represented transformation from untested claims about cinema’s therapeutic effects.

Abstract: Sartre’s theory of the look offers a fresh way of re-examining the doctor–patient relationship in clinical surgery. The look is an existential mode through which individuals strive for subjectivity. In the context of clinical surgery, the patient’s look makes the surgeon feel that his or her subjectivity is negated, and this feeling of negation cannot be dissolved regardless of the patient’s condition. It is therefore necessary to move beyond the infinite cycle of the look and to rediscover a path by which the surgeon can return to being-for-itself. From the standpoint of existential ontology, the surgeon attains subjectivity through autonomous surgical action and the assumption of responsibility. From the standpoint of existential sociology, the co-presence of doctor and patient elevates the surgeon’s being-for-itself into a being-for-itself of “us,” and the surgeon’s being-for-itself is made manifest through the process of being responsible for the patient. In terms of existential faith, the awareness of life is fundamental: through an attitude of in spite of, the surgeon cultivates this awareness of life and becomes a being-for-itself.

Abstract: The convergence of generative artificial intelligence and brain-computer interface technology is pushing artificial dreaming from science fiction into the scope of academic inquiry. Existing research has focused primarily on technical implementation pathways and sensory fidelity goals; while fragmented ethical and risk warnings exist, there remains a lack of systematic assessment of the physiological costs that artificial dreaming imposes on core sleep functions, a scarcity of theoretical refinement grounded in the dream system's own generative rules and aesthetic nature, and an absence of clear demarcation between different application paradigms. Taking a complete REM sleep–awakening boundary consciousness experience as its phenomenological point of departure, this paper draws on sleep neuroscience and neuroaesthetics to develop a theoretical inference that distills four layers of constraint in the human dream system: the visual bias of PGO wave conduction pathways, the functional auditory suppression of thalamic gating's "external-open, internal-closed" strategy, the emotional safety threshold of the auditory–amygdala short pathway, and the gating leakage effect during sleep-boundary transitions. On this basis, the paper assesses the impact of three levels of intervention—mild, moderate, and severe—on sleep restoration functions across four dimensions: neural repair, memory consolidation, emotional regulation, and somatic recovery, clarifying the upper limits of dream vividness corresponding to different intervention intensities. The study further proposes that artificial dreaming diverges into two paradigms: artistic dreaming and ludic dreaming. The former is an advanced form of AI art's transition from "exogenous generation" to "endogenous generation"—its core is not full-sensory realistic replication, but the continuous dynamic alignment of generated content with the subject's experience while protecting sleep's physiological functions. The latter targets open-world immersive experience, demanding higher intervention intensity and technical capability, and carrying higher health risks. The paper accordingly proposes the aesthetic concept of "dreamness," infers the design constraints of two layered technical pathways—non-invasive and invasive—and introduces the perspective of "consciousness ecology," arguing for four boundaries: neural safety, aesthetic value, sleep health, and ethical norms. It concludes that the "right of offline consciousness" should constitute the ultimate limit that artificial dreaming must never transgress. It should be noted that this paper is a cross-disciplinary theoretical construction; the relevant judgments regarding intervention effects and risks are hypothetical conclusions, and the cultural-symbolic and deep psychological dimensions of dreams are not yet covered.

Abstract: Po and opo are usually linked with respectful or deferential address in Tagalog. Although this association is genuine, it does not apply in all cases. A speaker is able to disagree, correct, refuse, or stay angry while still using po. It is also possible to show respect in a close relationship even when po is not used. The problem arises from this inconsistency. This preliminary study looks into what Tagalog-speaking adults believe po and opo are achieving in situations where the form used does not match the stance they report. The research method includes scenario elicitation, stimulated semi-structured interviews, judgments of paired utterances, and a small comparison between spoken and typed responses. The analysis maintains a separation between the form employed, the relationship between the speaker and the person being addressed, the stance that the participants themselves report, and the function that they assign to the form. Human-AI interaction is included merely as a comparative case. A conversational system can use po and opo fluently, which allows the respectful form to be examined without having to assume that the system has a human-like attitude. The study does not interpret using more po as proof of greater respect, fewer instances of po as evidence of cultural decline, or AI as a cause of language change. Its question is more specific: when po is used, what can that fact show, and what still needs to be learned from the relationship, the situation, and the speaker's own explanation?

Abstract: This study examines the first seventeen years of Imam Mohammad ibn Saud's rule in Diriyah, from his accession in 1727 CE (1139 AH) to his alliance with Sheikh Mohammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in 1744 CE. Long treated as a prelude to that alliance, the period is analyzed here as the founding phase of the First Saudi State, as formally recognized by the 2022 Royal Order establishing Founding Day. Combining the analytical-historical method with a structural approach, the study applies a three-level critical framework (external criticism, internal criticism, and contextual analysis) to the Najdi chronicles, a hostile contemporary narrative, and more than twenty regional, archaeological, numismatic, and memory studies published between 2021 and 2026. The results show that Diriyah expanded little in territory during these years yet built a coherent political order under severe structural constraint. That order rested on four elements: a defensive balance toward Banu Khalid and other stronger neighbors; durable local alliances; the careful management of settled–Bedouin relations within a subsistence oasis economy; and a pre-ideological discourse of lineage, security, and justice that converted practical performance into symbolic capital. This strategy of latency kept the ruling house cohesive, preserved the emirate's autonomy, and gave Diriyah the stability that later allowed it to adopt and sustain a broader religious and political project. The findings support the historiographical dating of the Saudi state to 1727, show that the accumulation of legitimacy preceded the growth of coercive and fiscal capacity, and identify the founding phase as the institutional and symbolic reference point of the Kingdom's contemporary national narrative and of Saudi Vision 2030.

Abstract: Almost every proposal about the Great Pyramid is a proposal about the lift. Straight ramps, spiral ramps, ramps folded onto the faces, levers, rockers, counterweights sliding down the Grand Gallery: the argument is always about how a block travelled the last hundred and forty metres. This paper asks a different question. If the whole chain from the quarry face to the setting crew is simulated as coupled state machines, with each stage given a fixed crew and the calendar left to emerge, which stage actually sets the pace? The instrument is a twin of the building process, not a survey model of the building. The answer is the quarry, and it is not close. In every configuration that finishes inside Khufu’s reign, the lift has spare capacity on roughly nine working days in ten: it could have raised more stone than the quarry delivered. Three consequences follow. First, the admissible builds are not a scatter of estimates but a single curve: quarrymen multiplied by extraction rate must equal 283 cubic metres of finished block a working day, and the Giza quarry’s own frontage truncates that curve at 0.047 cubic metres per man-day. Below that rate there is no face for the men to stand on. The one experimental rate in the literature, about 0.05 cubic metres of block per man-day from copper-tool trials at Wadi el-Jarf, sits on that floor. The floor rests on an estimate of the working frontage, 4,000 metres at 1.5 men to the metre, which is a construction of ours and the most fragile number here; the qualitative claim survives across a wide range of it, the precise figure does not. Second, because the lift has slack, the schedule cannot choose between lifting schemes. A multi-ramp, tongues of laid block, and a straight ramp stopped at twenty-five metres all reach the capstone within three months of one another, and a steeper ramp saves earthwork without saving a single day. The one exception is the speed of a lever station: above roughly thirty minutes a block a course, no number of lever crews finishes the pyramid, which rules out cribbing at Isler’s measured rate while leaving the rocker and the A-frame comfortably inside the reign. There is a deeper reason the calendar is powerless here. The gravitational work of assembling the pyramid is about 2.1 TJ, which is under two per cent of the labour the site actually fields, and about seven per cent once sledge friction is included. No lifting machine can save more than that, and a counterweight cannot save even that, because a pyramid is a one-way flow of mass upward and there is nothing to send down to reset it. Third, what does discriminate is not the calendar but the spoil. The schemes that agree on the schedule differ by five orders of magnitude in ramp fill, from nothing at all to 5.38 million cubic metres, and Lehner has already proposed the test: the debris now filling the Khufu quarry may be the dismantled ramps. Nobody has measured its volume. We set out what that measurement would settle. Simulation invites thinking and validation. It is not a proof in itself.

Abstract: The “Correspondances” of Baudelaire has long been a classic example of poetic synaesthesia, but the scholarly literature tends to either read the sense-transitions as deft stylistic flourishes or as a general outline of a Symbolist doctrine. This article enquires into the manner in which the cross-sensory language of Les Fleurs du Mal transforms embodied perception into symbolic and spiritual language. In order to analyse the data qualitatively, a qualitative semantic–semiotic analysis was carried out in fourteen passages from ten poems which were purposively selected. Passages were identified as having a source sensory domain, target sensory domain, horizontal correspondence between sensory modalities, vertical correspondence from sensation to an evaluative or metaphysical value, evaluative polarity, and symbolic function. The four operations that are identified are sensory reciprocity, embodied transport, sacralization through liturgical and metaphysical language, and profanation through decay, violence, and intoxication. Olfactory–auditory correspondence is highly represented in the sample, but cannot be supported with a collection-wide frequency. But more importantly, sensory fusion is constantly becoming a threshold between body and soul: perfume is “singing,” the soul is “drinking” colour and sound, and sacred objects like the temple, the censer, the Te Deum, the divine gaze become caught up in corruption, opium, blood, and mortality. The synaesthetic discourse of Baudelaire thus does not address the sacred–profane dichotomy. It makes that tension palpable, and demonstrates the spiritual perception that is produced by the modern poetic language of unstable embodied signs.

Abstract: The accounts of Arthur Rimbaud's poetry that feature Symbolism, synesthesia, metaphor, and the poetics of the voyant are all common but have failed to fully connect the lexical oddities of local incongruity and the psychological mechanisms of coherence in the context of individual poems. Poetic deviations have been described in Rimbaud (without denying that there are any), but not with any systematic or replicable regard to the grammatical characteristics or the contextual solution of the deviations. This article presents a qualitative stylistic and semiotic analysis of a purposive corpus that includes poems: Voyelles, Le Bateau ivre, Larme, L’étoile a pleuré rose…, Tête de Faune and Les Premières Communions as examples of related poems. All expressions have been coded based on the grammatical locus, semantic expectation violation, sensory configuration, and contextual effect. The apparently impossible combinations of Rimbaud's poems are not random ornament, nor are they capable of being translated into metaphor, the analysis reveals. The concepts that are expressed by colors shift from what is seen to sounds, times, odors, and abstractions; agency and transitivity shift to verbs; and relations that cannot be expressed in ordinary use shift to nominal constructions. The disruptions first prevent the literal composition, and later generate the contextual reconstruction through imagery, sounds, embodiment, and intertextual association. The article has been divided into three systematic types of semantic impertinence (adjectival, verbal and nominal) and discusses how they shift the meaning of Rimbaud's poems. It thus adds a dimension to Cohen's idea that is not a unified, universal one, but rather depends on a specific context, and that can overlap metaphor and literary synesthesia, but is neither one nor the other.

Abstract: The Middle East includes at least two major empires, namely Ottoman and Persian. In Part 1 of this review, we focus on the studies of the scientific developments of the Ottomans, and we discussed their contributions in different fields, such as astronomy, medicine, and earth sciences, etc. In terms of Ottoman astronomy, Ulugh Beg (1394-1449) compiled Zij-i Sultani (astronomical table and star catalogue). His student, Ali Qushji (1403-74), wrote the mathematical work entitled al-Muḥammadiyya fī al-ḥisāb (The Muḥammadiyya Treatise on Arithmetic) and the astronomical works entitled al-Fathiyya (The Treatise of Conquest). For medicine, Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385-1468) published Cerrahiyyetü’l-Haniyye (Imperial surgery), and Şanizade Mehmed Ataullah Efendi (1771-1826) wrote Teşrih-ül Ebdan ve Tercümânı Kıbale-i Feylesûfan (the first illustrated anatomy textbook in Ottoman-Turkish medicine). For Ottoman earth sciences, Piri Reis (1470-1553) published his 1513 world map and his nautical atlas, the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of the Sea). Kâtip Çelebi (1609-57) compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and sciences, the Kaşf az-Zunūn. This review should form another discourse of modern scientific advances, other than the European narrative.

Abstract: Advanced Design, as a discipline focused on exploring future opportunities, has the potential to significantly enhance New Product Development, understood as the process of designing and introducing new products to the market. However, organizations such as COTECMAR -the Science and Technology Corporation for the Development of the Naval, Maritime, and Riverine Industry, a mixed public and private organization- despite their extensive experience and capabilities in New Product Development, have traditionally concentrated their design efforts on addressing immediate and operational challenges. While the automotive industry has long employed concept cars to anticipate future scenarios, this practice has not been widely adopted within the shipbuilding sector, and even less so in Colombia. Within this context, an opportunity emerged to develop vision concepts - analogous to concept cars but applicable across industries -to explore potential future pathways for COTECMAR in Colombia’s Pacific Region. Through the application of DIVE, an Advanced Design technique, this research project explored and articulated ten diverse vision concepts. These range from an amphibious boat operating in conjunction with a health center built on stilts to improve access to quality visual healthcare services, to integrated tourism mobility systems composed of small yacht cruises, floating stations, and collectible tickets that connect travelers and local communities with the region’s natural and cultural assets. Across these explorations, it became evident that Advanced Design holds substantial potential to strengthen COTECMAR’s New Product Development processes. It can unlock new creative opportunities by expanding the Corporation’s product portfolio, fostering the adoption of a product–service systems approach, and enabling engagement with a broader and more diverse set of target markets.

Abstract: The uncontested preeminence of the golden ratio (ϕ) has come to occupy a central role in aesthetics and graphic design due to its uncanny appeal to the human eye. This ratio represents an irrational number and has been called the divine proportion for its uncanny presence and applications in the natural world. Hence, this paper critically reevaluates the status of the golden ratio as the secret to innate design and composition. Academic literature has a bifurcation that either supports or suppresses the golden ratio, and studies several of its features and effects in abstract isolation. This paper discusses various arguments to reveal the true nature of the divine proportion. The findings contribute to comprehending parallel proportions like 1:1 and 1:√2 as effective substitutes, creating unexplored and unconsidered avenues for cultural coherence and formulating an aligned brand identity. To resolve the chasm between standardisation and localisation of corporations, this article proposes a modular arrangement of multi-media assets that cater to a wide-ranging audience. This paper also portrays a blueprint to coalesce developments in artificial intelligence and generative technologies, and the golden ratio, into precise logo creation and global brand management. This integrative literature review has sought to validate or pierce the praised reputation of the divine ratio in the figurative blueprint for extralimital design. The future of global brand management relies entirely on extracting an equilibrium between a recognisable market face and user-tailored purposeful design, and treating context-specific malleability as the roadmap to an eclectic audience.

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between knitting and STEM, and its direct impact on women's desires and abilities to enter STEM fields. While prior literature demonstrates a connection between textile crafts and mathematical logic, alongside separate motivations for participating in fiber arts and STEM, a significant gap remains regarding how these two domains correlate and mutually influence one another. Data was collected through a qualitative, phenomenological research framework. Research participants included feminine-presenting individuals actively involved in both local fiber arts communities and STEM-based academia, paired with a formal structural analysis of a specific knitting pattern. Initial results revealed a strong conceptual and community-based connection between knitting and STEM, demonstrating that this intersection actively encourages women's desires and perceived self-efficacy to pursue technical pathways. Consequently, increasing participation in fiber arts could positively shift demographics in technical disciplines. However, these findings are geographically limited to the Global West—specifically the US and UK—reflecting a homogenous socioeconomic and ethnic participant base. Further longitudinal research is required to evaluate the long-term effects of these findings on demographic shifts within both STEM and fiber arts spaces over time.

Abstract: This paper examines the development of science, technology, and engineering in Persia from the Achaemenid period under Cyrus the Great to the modern era. It traces the evolution of Persian knowledge across astronomy, medicine, earth sciences, and civil engineering, emphasizing the close relationship between scientific inquiry, practical needs, and state development. The study highlights major figures including al-Khwarizmi, al-Razi (Rhazes), Avicenna (Ibn Sina), al-Biruni, al-Karaji, Omar Khayyam, and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, whose contributions to medicine, astronomy, hydrology, and natural philosophy profoundly influenced the wider Islamic world and, in some cases, medieval Europe. It also examines major technological achievements, including Achaemenid hydraulic systems, Sasanian dams and bridges, Persian qanats, Safavid urban and hydraulic engineering, and the modernization of engineering education and infrastructure under the Qajar and Pahlavi states. By bringing together the histories of science, medicine, engineering, and technological exchange, the paper argues that Persian scientific development should not be understood simply as the transmission of Greek or European knowledge. Rather, Persian scholars and technical specialists actively adapted, synthesized, and extended knowledge from Greek, Indian, Mesopotamian, Islamic, and European traditions, creating a distinctive and enduring intellectual and technological tradition.

Abstract: Background. – Despite extensive research on cerebral dominance and handedness, their functional congruence across sexes remains under-explored. Objective. – This study evaluated the neuropsychological concordance between brain dominance patterns (left, right, integrated) and handedness types (right, left, mixed), alongside sex-based differences in agreement rates. Method. – A comparative descriptive design was utilized among 350 university students (M = 19.07, SD = 0.87; 154 males, 196 females). Standardized behavioral measures assessed hand preference (172 right-handed, 106 left-handed, 72 mixed) and hemispheric cognitive processing (144 left-brain, 62 right-brain, 144 integrated-brain dominance). Results. – revealed a statistically significant overall concordance between brain dominance and handedness (49.7%, k = .238, p < .001). Furthermore, males demonstrated a significantly higher concordance rate than females (61.0% vs. 40.8%), indicating a small-to-moderate sex effect, X² (1, N = 350) = 14.11, p < .001. Conclusion. – These findings indicate a moderate agreement between cerebral dominance and handedness, with significantly higher congruence in males. Thus, sex should be routinely accounted for when assessing neurocognitive functional asymmetry.