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Two crackerjack science journalists from NPR look at why some things (and some people!) drive us crazy It happens everywhere?offices, schools, even your own backyard. Plus, seemingly anything can trigger it?cell phones, sirens, bad music, constant distractions, your boss, or even your... read more
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- Cunningham
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- Hogan
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- Lucy
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- Emberson
- Materazzi
- Chamberlain
- Rodrigues
- Schulman
- Zidane
- Fritz
- Ellsworth
- Herz
- Craufurd
- Liberman
- Karen Anderson
- Brosnan
- David Huron
- Conmy
- Kingsley
- Kohn
- Aron
- Sidney
- Lutz
- James
- Sharkey
- Rumbler
- Tinbergen
- Danneman
- Tranel
- Hatfield
- Simons
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The trouble with investigating the science of annoyance is that unlike simple topics such as string theory or molecular genetics, the science of what's annoying is highly complex, drawing on multiple disciplines from physics, chemistry and biology in the natural sciences to psychology, sociology, anthropology and linguestics in the social sciences to history, literature, philosophy and art in the humanities.
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A Note for the Authors
Introduction: Cell Phones
A Noise Annoys
A Case of Mistaken Intensity
Fingernails on a Chalkboard
Skunked
Bugged by Bugs: An Epic Bugging
Who Moved Their Cheese?
The Terror of Perfect Pitch
Dissonant
Breaking the Rules
He's Just Not That Annoyed by You
Better Late Than Never Doesn't Apply Here
When Your Mind Becomes a Foreign Country
The Annoyed Brain
False Alarms
Conclusion
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