Crowds work in mysterious ways, sometimes behaving more like a hive-minded superorganism than a collection of individuals.

Researchers in Spain and Japan tested a broad range of pedestrians in varying group sizes to see whether there were any ...

A still image from one of the experiments, showing position of people (red dots) and recent movement (the orange lines).

A recent study suggests that people have an innate tendency to walk counterclockwise, rather than the other way around.

A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort themselves into lanes, avoid collisions, and ...

If you've ever felt like you naturally drift a certain way while walking, a team of Spanish physicists has some news: ...

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias ...

A recently published study in Nature Communications provided evidence for intrinsic locomotor bias in the development of ...

Research has found that bodily movements are symbolically associated with movement in time. Clockwise movements are associated with progression into the future, whereas counterclockwise movements are ...