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

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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


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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.