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