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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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