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Researchers accidentally discover that humans prefer to turn counterclockwise but they still have no idea why
If you were asked to stand up and walk in any direction, which way would you go? According to new research, regardless of if ...
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.
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Humans have a strong tendency to walk counterclockwise, but scientists have no idea why
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 ...
Science has now confirmed it; we prefer to move in a counterclockwise direction. Two researchers, Dr Iñaki Echeverría Huarte ...
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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