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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 17 2017, @10:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the bumping-noses dept.

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

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


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 17 2017, @11:33PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 17 2017, @11:33PM (#540633) Journal

    This has to be a blow to the left SJW, the natural order of this world is right conservative leaning.

    (large trollish grin)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:38PM (#540637)

    The left are kissless virgins who watch Star Trek in Morn's basement and fantasize about dating dabo girls.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:00AM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:00AM (#540645)

    If you lean to the right, it seems like the whole world leans to the left. And vice versa.
    Just ask Fox News.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:56PM (#540953)

      It doesn't seem like it -- that is what Fox tells their audiences.

      Of course, there are many weird far left and far right websites that voice strange theories and ideas that would otherwise be reduced to requiring a loopmanics publication to get into print, had the internet not allowed for the weird to voice their thoughts so effectively.