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

As for why, scientists aren’t sure yet. That was the gist of a recent study published in Nature Communications. According to ...

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

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 still image from one of the experiments, showing position of people (red dots) and recent movement (the orange lines).

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

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 ...

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 ...