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November 12, 2010

Strange But True!

Q. Do you kiss the right way?

A. No judgments are intended here as there's really no “wrong” way to do it. Rather, “right” pertains to the right or left tilt of the kissing head. Just as most people kick with their right foot, throw with their right arm, or look through a microscope with their right eye, most of us kiss with our head tilted right, said biopsychologist Onur Gunturkun in Nature magazine. He observed 124 kissing couples age 13 to 70 in airports, railway stations, beaches and parks in the U.S., Germany and Turkey and found that two-thirds of the participants kiss this way. Even in Rodin's famous masterpiece “The Kiss,” the lovers turn their heads to the right.


 
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