Kissing the 'Right' Way: Most of Us Don't Go Left

Dig if you will the picture: two people engaged in a kiss. 

Prince sang about "curious poses," but new research suggests that most of us may strike similar poses, leaning to the right instead of the left when kissing the lips of our partners. Researchers at the University of Bath and in Bangladesh report in the journal Scientific Reports that more than two-thirds of so-called kiss "initiators" and kiss "recipients" in their study leaned their heads to the right, with a person's handedness predicting which way the initiator went. 

That didn't hold for the recipients, however, who preferred to match the direction of the head leaning toward them and avoid what was described as discomfort when heads were mirrored.

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