Fidget-Hating Misokinesia, Blood Fainting, Infrasound Ghosts
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Learn about misokinesia, an intense hatred of movements; why fear of blood makes you faint; and why your “ghost problem” might be caused by infrasound.
A third of people may have misokinesia, an intense hatred of certain movements like fidgeting by Steffie Drucker
- Do you hate seeing people fidget? New UBC research says you’re not alone. (2021, August 31). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/927047
- If You Can’t Stand People Fidgeting, You May Have Misokinesia. (2020, February 3). Vice.com. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnwgm/if-you-cant-stand-people-fidgeting-you-may-hav e-misokinesia
- Dockrill, P. (2021). First In-Depth Study of “Misokinesia” Phenomenon Shows It May Affect 1 in 3 People. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/first-in-depth-study-of-misokinesia-phenomenon-shows-it may-affect-1-in-3-people
- Sumeet Jaswal, & Handy, T. (2021, September 7). If you’re annoyed by other people’s fidgeting or finger-tapping, you’re not alone: Misokinesia affects 1 in 3. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/if-youre-annoyed-by-other-peoples-fidgeting-or-finger-tappin g-youre-not-alone-misokinesia-affects-1-in-3-166950
- Misophonia episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/why-megalodon-was-so-huge-misophonia-in-the-brain-trivia/
Here’s Why Fear Of Blood Makes You Faint When Other Phobias Make Your Heart Race by Ashley Hamer
- Blood, sweat and fears - A common phobia’s odd pathophysiology - 2013 SPRING - Stanford Medicine Magazine - Stanford University School of Medicine. (2013). Stanford.edu. http://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2013spring/article6.html
- Wani, A. L., Ara, A., & Bhat, S. A. (2014). Blood Injury and Injection Phobia: The Neglected One. Behavioural Neurology, 2014, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/471340
- Öst, L.-G., Fellenius, J., & Sterner, U. (1991). Applied tension, exposure in vivo, and tension-only in the treatment of blood phobia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 29(6), 561–574. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(91)90006-o
Got a Ghost Problem? It Might Just Be Infrasound by Reuben Westmaas originally aired October 26, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/the-science-of-hauntings-sleep-deprivation-effects
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:05.1 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn what it |
| 0:09.7 | means if you have an intense hatred of certain movements like fidgeting, why fear of blood makes you faint, |
| 0:16.0 | and why your quote-unquote ghost problem might be caused by infrasound. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's satisfy some quote-unquote curiosity. Does seeing someone |
| 0:27.4 | fidget make you annoyed or anxious or |
| 0:34.0 | scientists from the University of British Columbia recently discovered that roughly a third of the |
| 0:39.3 | population might suffer from Mesocanesia or a hatred of movement. |
| 0:46.0 | You've probably heard about mesophonia, that's an extreme sensitivity to sounds like |
| 0:52.0 | slurping, chewing, or the ticking of a clock. |
| 0:55.9 | We talked about it on Curiosity Daily back in July, and it's estimated to effect between |
| 1:01.1 | six and twenty% of people. |
| 1:04.0 | In the last few decades, scientific research on misophonia has grown, |
| 1:09.0 | but its close cousin, Mesocanesia, has flown under the radar. The two disorders are closely |
| 1:16.3 | linked and they seem to often occur together. Think about someone constantly clicking a |
| 1:21.8 | pen or tapping their fingers on a table. |
| 1:24.8 | The noise and repeated motion can be equally triggering, although some people are only |
| 1:30.7 | affected by one or the other. |
| 1:33.4 | Todd Handy is the senior author of a new study into this phenomenon, and he became interested |
| 1:39.4 | in Mesocanesia after a date confessed that his fidgeting was stressing her out. |
| 1:45.0 | Yikes. |
| 1:47.0 | This is the first ever study to examine mezocanesia specifically. |
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