When you kiss your sweetheart this Valentine's Day you may well
turn your head to the right, echoing a preference born in the
womb, a researcher suggests. Onur Guentuerkuen of Ruhr-
University Bochum in Bochum, Germany, reports that he spied on
124 pairs of adults who turned their heads left or right while
kissing on the lips in public places in Germany, Turkey and the
United States. Two-thirds of the kissers went to the right, he
found. Prior research has found that babies also tend to turn
their heads to the right rather than the left during their final
weeks of gestation and for the first six months after birth,
Guentuerkuen says in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. So
the results on kissing show that early head-turning bias may
affect behavior in adulthood, he says. People also prefer to use
the right foot, ear and eye by about two-to-one, suggesting
those behavioral biases may be related, he said. But right-
handedness dominates the population far more, about eight-to-
one, so that's either not relate