How fun would it be to write this book - Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us (Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman - Wiley)? Or maybe it would just be annoying.
Article about the book in the Science section of today's NY Times......
Apparently, lots of annoying things are things we hear - and hearing less than all of something is more intrusive than hearing the whole thing (example? ... half of a phone conversation...is it because we can only imagine the responses?).
Interesting tidbits from the article ....
"First on a list of traits that tend to annoy others ... is that of being constantly annoyed."
"People with perfect pitch report they are routinely driven insane by nebulous halftones that don't fit into their ordered brains."
