11-06-2026 09:00 via science.slashdot.org

Humans Prefer To Walk Anticlockwise, Scientists Find

fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Tests reveal that when people are ambling about, they have a natural tendency to turn to the left and walk in an anticlockwise direction. "If you simply ask someone to start walking, whether they are wandering around a museum, a supermarket, or even an empty room, it is surprisingly likely that they will drift counterclockwise," said Dr Inaki Echeverria Huarte at University of Navarra in Spain.As with many critical discoveries in science, the revelation ow
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