Are you doing it right ?
 

Kissing that is ;) :D

Keep to the right for a perfect kiss

The best way to kiss to ensure good initial lip-to-lip contact has been discovered by a neuroscientist who has secretly observed kissing couples in three countries.

If you are kissing someone this Valentine's Day, you should lean your head to to the right before planting the smacker.

This head-turning conclusion has come from Prof Onur Gunturkun of Bochum University in Germany, who watched 124 kissing couples at airports, railway stations, parks and beaches across the United States, Germany and Turkey.

To ensure that his data were easy to interpret, he counted only the first kiss and ignored people who were encumbered with mobile telephones, which could induce a bias in his results.

His survey of 13- to 70-year-olds showed that twice as many people turned their heads to the right to kiss as to the left. He points out today in Nature that in Rodin's masterpiece The Kiss, the lovers also turn their heads to the right.

Prof Gunturkun stressed that he did not conduct his study because of an interest in kissing but "to understand how our brain asymmetries develop".

In this case, the right preference probably first develops in the womb.

Armed with this data, Prof Gunturkun is able to predict the kissing success rate during Valentine's day, assuming that the individual kissing "head motor bias" to the right is 2:1.

Of nine couples, four would both have the right bias, ensuring a successful kiss with no subsequent manoeuvring.

One couple would have a left bias, again ensuring good initial contact.

However, four couples would clash noses as they attempted a left/right kiss - it seems that almost half the population will get their Valentine's kiss off to an unpromising start.

This is one of many examples of a right preference: use of the right foot, eye and ear are also preferred with a ratio of about 2:1.

During the final weeks in the womb, babies develop a preference for turning their heads to the right.

His study shows that this taste for head turning lasts into adulthood, and, by setting up biases in movement and sensory perception, may influence other asymmetries in behaviour, as has already been seen in birds.

In birds, a preference for turning the head to the right before hatching induced motor, visual and mental imbalances said Prof Gunturkun.

He added: "If a similar effect occurs in humans and an initial asymmetry in the direction of head turning stimulates various functional left-right differences, then the head-turning bias of the newborn would have to overlap in time with the establishment of adult asymmetries."

Very cool! I always have successful kisses..........one of my fave past times.

I also have a thing for smarty pants neuroscience dudes so I think I need to kiss that doc:p and you too T-S for posting this!

Hmmmmmmm. wonder how much his research cost? Also, just a thought, but wouldn't being right or left handed have something to do with which way you tilt your head. Continuing this thought since there are more right handed people then left it would only go to show that more people tend to tilt their heads to the right rather than the left. Hey, I should get a gov't grant to study this!

T-S tilts his head to the right in eager anticipation ;) :D

Amazing that some-one pays this guy to hang around airports watching couples kiss. Poor Professor - must be missing something in his life!

I like kissing straight on.......touching noses in the Eskimo tradition....as our lips touch and tounges extend.......it's then that I tilt to right or left to get it deeper and more passionate!

*If loving you is wrong.......I don't wanna be right!*

T-S: It's all a matter of a perspective.

Don't shoot, I'm only the messenger ;) :D

oooooooooooo I dooooo soooo love kissing it's yummy :D

Ah nice to know we're normal :D
To the right it is!
Then to spice things up I'll switch to the left, always gotta keep him on his toes ;)