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

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

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

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

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