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Do You Hate Seeing People Fidget? New UBC Research Says You’re Not Alone

posted by mrpg on Wednesday September 08 2021, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-is-me dept.

upstart writes:

Do you hate seeing people fidget? New UBC research says you’re not alone:

Do you get anxious, annoyed or frustrated when you see someone fidgeting? If so, you may suffer from misokinesia–or the “hatred of movements.”

According to new UBC research, approximately one-third of the population suffer from the psychological phenomenon, which is defined by a strong negative emotional response to the sight of someone else’s small and repetitive movements.

The study, led by UBC psychology PhD student Sumeet Jaswal (she/her) and UBC psychology professor Dr. Todd Handy (he/him), is the first of its kind on the condition.

In this Q&A, Jaswal and Dr. Handy discuss the research findings as well as some good advice for people who may be silently suffering from misokinesia.

Journal Reference:
Jaswal, Sumeet M., De Bleser, Andreas K. F., Handy, Todd C.. Misokinesia is a sensitivity to seeing others fidget that is prevalent in the general population [open], Scientific Reports (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96430-4)

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday September 09 2021, @07:38AM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Thursday September 09 2021, @07:38AM (#1176160)

    I wouldn't say that I hate it. It's, or can be, a bit distracting. If it is just minor tho then I probably don't even really notice. It's much worse with people that are like "hand-talkers", they keep making gestures with their hands as they speak. That is distracting and annoying as hell. It's like they have to move their hands to make their brain work and allow the words to come out of their mouth.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 09 2021, @05:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 09 2021, @05:58PM (#1176334)

    Ah, I'm one of those. I /do/ have to move to think properly, especially for doing math.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:11AM (#1176542)

      I can "see" the math I write in the air. The fun some people have watching me do that. My in-laws used to make fun and a couple thought I was faking it. At least until I used the square root algorithm to find the square root of a randomly selected number to wherever their graphing calculator ran out of digits.