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

Crowds work in mysterious ways, sometimes behaving more like a hive-minded superorganism than a collection of individuals.

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

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

Science has now confirmed it; we prefer to move in a counterclockwise direction. Two researchers, Dr Iñaki Echeverría Huarte ...

Put a small crowd of people in an open space and ask them to walk around, and something odd happens. They do not move as randomly as you might think. Again and again, in experiments in Spain and Japan ...

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

As expected, our question of, "why do we dance western dance around the floor counter clockwise" generated a varied response. The question arose while attending a western swing concert at Quitaque ...