Last week, I wrote about Ellen Langer’s newest book, "The Mindful Body." I made reference to one of her previous investigations, the "Counterclockwise" study, conducted and published in 1979. It is a ...
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Strange walking experiment found that almost everyone, alone or in crowds, keeps turning counterclockwise
Put a small crowd of people in an open space and ask them to walk around, and something odd happens. They do not move as randomly as you might think. Again and again, in experiments in Spain and Japan ...
Suppose you're wandering around a space without any particular destination in mind – exploring a park maybe, or ambling ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People in Spain and Japan showed the same counterclockwise turning bias, pointing to a possible built-in feature of human movement ...
Left to your own devices? Turns out you’ll probably go left. Whether you’re going for a stroll around the neighborhood while on the phone or killing time before your train arrives, odds are you’re ...
Left to your own devices? Turns out you’ll probably go left. Whether you’re going for a stroll around the neighborhood while on the phone or killing time before your train arrives, odds are you’re ...
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