They picked a pen because it is a tool typically grasped with the dominant hand, and it is also very familiar to everyone.
For example, when asked to pick a colored pen from an array of pens, individualists tend to pick the most unusual color, and collectivists tend to pick the most common.
Another option, called SimFriend, lets visitors to the Web site pick a Sim pen pal from among 120 characters, and that pen pal will send e-mail messages.
For the functional tasks, statistically significant differences were found between LLx and ULx peak angles for picking up a pen, picking up a box, transferring a pillow, and transferring a box, but not for squatting.
"People dash off e-mail where they wouldn't pick up the phone and certainly wouldn't pick up a pen," she said.
By 18 months, for instance, a toddler can already understand the gesture to pick up a pen.
Handel could scarcely pick up a pen without quoting someone else's themes.
Sang cannot hold a cup, pick up a pen, grab a pill out of a bottle, dress herself.
"I mean, if I could dance like Rihanna, Jesus Christ, maybe I would never have to pick up a pen again!
Aesop would perk his ears, pick up a pen at this thicket of still current figures of speech.
"It is academic snobbery to say you should only pick up a pen and take lots of detailed notes.
