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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A recently published study in Nature Communications provided evidence for intrinsic locomotor bias in the development of ...

Researchers in Spain and Japan tested a broad range of pedestrians in varying group sizes to see whether there were any patterns to their turning behaviors, and what factors influence them if there ...