Annoying

social norms

social rule breaking

examples of

movie and play characters

primate studies

social allergens

sounds

definition of

ears and hearing

frequency of

loudness of

pleasantness vs. unpleasantness

roughness of

tone

See also music; noise annoyances

speech, predictability of

sports

“Bug Game”

trash talk

spouse’s annoying habits. See relationships, annoyances in

Squire, Larry

SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)

stereocilia

Stewart, Potter

sticklebacks

The Story of Us

stress

supertasters

Switzerland

inflexibility in

pace of life

Syria, pace of life in

tamarins

taste

telephones

ThinkGeek

thiols

time perception

Tinbergen, Nikolaas

Tinklepaugh, Otto Leif

tone

traits

Tranel, Daniel

trash talk

traumatic brain injury patients

TRPA1

TRP proteins

Tung, Will

Twain, Mark

uncouth habits

Ungar, Felix

University of York

unpleasantness requirement

Utkuhikhalingmiut Eskimos

van de Geer, John

verbal shadowing

Virginia Medical Monthly

vomiting

von Clef, Julia

Wang, Qi

What about Bob?

Wilkinson, Howard

wine

women, pain tolerance of. See also relationships, annoyances in

Wood, William

Wynne, Clive

x-system

Zatorre, Robert

Zidane, Zinedine

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