The effect transcends factors like culture, gender and handedness, causing the scientists, who were initially studying social ...

Researchers in Spain and Japan tested a broad range of pedestrians in varying group sizes to see whether there were any ...

The bias certainly appears to exist, but scientists still have no idea why it exists. When you’re walking down a crowded ...

Right and left hands are not inherently meant to be used differently. It is due to the ‘folly of nurses and mothers’ that a ...

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias ...

A recent study suggests that people have an innate tendency to walk counterclockwise, rather than the other way around.

“Our results may appear as a minor insignificant discovery, but in nature, most phenomena related to locomotion show that ...

A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort themselves into lanes, avoid collisions, and ...

Spanish and Japanese researchers analyzed videos of pedestrians and discovered a surprising bias: the majority of people turn ...

An international study has found that people naturally turn to the left when walking. Researchers say that humans move anti-clockwise when in closed spaces, such as supermarkets, museums and empty ...