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

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

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

“Our results may appear as a minor insignificant discovery, but in nature, most phenomena related to locomotion show that animals mostly walk without directional preference. The strong bias found in ...

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 ...

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

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