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Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over

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

MrPlow writes:

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 KGIII on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:02AM (4 children)

    by KGIII (5261) on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:02AM (#540722) Journal

    I am the same age. I have sex with the missus, quite frequently. It helps to have retired early. Afternoon sex is best sex.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @07:35AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @07:35AM (#540860)

    i'm 35 with two small children. I hate you profoundly.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:51AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:51AM (#540915)

      I am 40 with no sex life no kids living with a very cold fish thinking of just ending it from sexual frustration

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:47PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:47PM (#540922)

        Now guys, he didn't say she enjoyed it, or welcomed it. It could be a shipping container type scenario.

        Upper 30s with a tiny kid, sex infrequent because kid and work and housework take up all our times. But we would love to do it more often, so we get #2 going.

        • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:51PM

          by KGIII (5261) on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:51PM (#541233) Journal

          My kids are both grown and long since moved out.

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          "So long and thanks for all the fish."