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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 patterns to their turning behaviors, and what factors influence them if there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still image from one of the experiments, showing position of people (red dots) and recent movement (the orange lines).

A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort themselves into lanes, avoid collisions, and slip through bottlenecks with surprising ease. Now a new study suggests ...