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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Spanish and Japanese researchers analyzed videos of pedestrians and discovered a surprising bias: the majority of people turn ...

Winds always rotate in a counterclockwise sense around hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Winds in tornadoes usually rotate counterclockwise, but in perhaps five percent of tornadoes, clockwise ...