Right-handers and Americans favor turning to the right

Human Factors

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 248-256

  Scharine, Angelique A ^a   McBeath, Michael K ^a  

^a Box 871104 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; DECISION MAKING; GAIT ANALYSIS; GENES;

WALKING DIRECTION PREFERENCES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; DRIVING ABILITY; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TRAFFIC; WALKING;

EID: 0036625035     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/0018720024497916     Document Type: Article

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