The early psychoanalysts made this observation and Freud mentions it as well. They did not have large sample sizes though; see e.g. https://sci-hub.se/https://d

The early psychoanalysts made this observation and Freud mentions it as well. They did not have large sample sizes though; see e.g. https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1961.11023281 https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1961.110...