Table 4 Effects of the kiss recipients’ sex, handedness, and the kiss initiators’ head-turning direction on the kiss recipients’ head-turning direction demonstrated through a binary logistic regression on the kiss initiator provided data.

From: The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing

Variable

B

SE

Wald

df

p

Exp(B)

95% CI for Exp(B)

(Intercept)

−0.695

0.805

0.745

1

0.388

0.499

 

Kiss recipients’ sex

−0.264

0.956

0.076

1

0.782

0.768

0.118–4.997

Kiss recipients’ handedness

0.004

0.008

0.333

1

0.564

1.004

0.989–1.020

Kiss initiators’ head-turning direction

2.427

0.792

9.382*

1

0.002

11.327

2.397–53.533

  1. Note. N = 48.
  2. Coding independent variable, Sex: Male = 1.000; Female = 0.000 (Reference category).
  3. Coding independent variable, Kiss initiator’s head-turning direction: Right = 1.000; Left = 0.000 (Reference category).
  4. Coding dependent variable, Kiss recipient’s head-turning direction: Left = 0; Right = 1.
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