Abstract
In the present study several experiments of walking bias were performed in order to investigate the fundamental nature of ring-wandering and to examine the relationships between various physical dominant factors and the direction of walking bias. Subjects were 20 to 29 male and female college students, 18 to 21 years in age. The conclusions of the present study were summarized as follows : 1) The repeatability of one's direction of bias was rather high if the experimental conditions were the same for all walkings. 2) Assuming that 5 m from the center line is the limit of acceptable deviation, the distance one can keep correct direction to the target while blinbfolded would be roughly 40 m. 3) The relationships between walking speed and amount of walking bias were as follows : for the whole group, the subjects who walked unconsciously with high speed showed relatively smaller bias; and with respect to an individual subject when he walked with consciously high speed, he tended to register smaller walking bias than he had registered previously in walking unconsciously. 4) There were no significant relationships between one's direction of walking bias and his various physical dominant factors.
