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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: 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.