Researchers find humans often veer left while walking (opens in new tab)

An international research team reported that people tend to turn left and move counterclockwise when walking freely, a pattern observed in experiments in Spain and Japan and published June 10 in Nature Communications. The work began during studies of Covid-19 distancing, when researchers reviewing overhead video noticed that crowds often circulated counterclockwise rather than moving randomly. The bias appeared in adults, teenagers and children, and persisted across sex, handedness, dominant ...