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If you lean in for a kiss on the left you may be in the minority. A new study from an international team of psychologists and neuroscientists suggest that humans are hardwired to favour leaning to the right while kissing romantic partners, which may have wider implications for neuroscience and cognitive sciences.
Building on previous work from Western countries, a new academic paper just published in the journal Scientific Reports, is the first to investigate an inherent bias for turning the head to one side while people kiss in a non-Western context, in Bangladesh, where romantic kissing is not typically observed in public. It is also the first study in the world to show that the kiss recipients have a tendency to match their partners' head-leaning direction.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-humans-hardwired-world.html
Journal Reference: A. K. M. Rezaul Karim et al. The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing, Scientific Reports (2017). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04942-9
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:59PM (2 children)
In other news, non-nose-breaking behavior is favored when going romantic. At 11.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:03PM (1 child)
Except for Eskimos.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:35PM
Bumping noses is very romantic when you live in a place that is so cold you could freeze your tongues together with a traditional [to the rest of the world] kiss.
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