Annoying

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Palca, Joe.

Annoying : the science of what bugs us / Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-63869-9 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-118-02809-4 (ebk.); ISBN 978-1-118-02810-0 (ebk.); ISBN 978-1-118-02811-7 (ebk.)

1. Aversive stimuli—Physiological effect. 2. Aversion—Psysiological aspects. 3. Neuropsychology. 4. Discontent. 5. Human physiology. I. Lichtman, Flora. Title.

QP401.P35 2011

612.8—dc22

2010054046

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Footnotes

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Just like William Wood, Eric Block’s research in garlic chemistry had colleagues downwind from his fume hood flaring their nostrils. “I was contacted by our president’s office about a strong pizza smell in his office. The solution was to invest several million dollars in new fume stacks to transport the fume hood exhaust gases higher up in the atmosphere away from campus offices!”

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Get it? Sharkey… extra teeth. Oh, those wacky scientists.

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Pronounced Utkuhikhalingmiut.

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Notes

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1. L. L. Emberson, G. Lupyan, M. H. Goldstein, and M. J. Spivey, “Overheard Cell-Phone Conversations: When Less Speech Is More Distracting,” Psychological Science 21(10) (2010): 1383–1388.

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2. Ibid.

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3. A. Monk, J. Carrol, P. Parker, and M. Blythe, “Why Are Mobile Phones Annoying? ” Behaviour and Information Technology 23 (2004): 33–41.

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4. Mark Twain, “A Telephonic Conversation,” Atlantic Magazine (June 1880) via Mark Liberman, “That Queerest of All the Queer Things,” Language Log (January 18, 2010), http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languag elog/archives/000641.html.

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5. Mark Liberman, “Mind-Reading Fatigue,” Language Log (November 8, 2003), http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languag elog/archives/000095.html.

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6. Emberson, Lupyan, Goldstein, and Spivey, “Overheard Cell-Phone Conversations.”

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1. Christopher Columbus, The Journal: Account of the First Voyage and Discovery of the Indies, trans. Marc A. Beckwith and Luciano F. Farina (Rome: Libreria dello Stato, 1992).