Daily(повседневная)life can be full of annoying(раздражающие) distractions, from loud phone conversations, noisy soup eaters to waiting... and waiting... for a delayed flight or train. Joe Palca, a science correspondent for US National Public Radio, explains some of the things we find annoying and says it can be the unpredictable moments in life that frustrate us the most. Why do fingernails on a blackboard make us cringe?(съеживаться)
The sound of fingernails on blackboards has only received a modicum(чуточку) of scientific enquiry(исследование) but it doesn't seem to be anything to do with frequency. It has to do with roughness, which is a quality of sound where the amplitude of a particular sound rapidly goes up and down. The amplitude varying in an unpredictable(непредсказуемый) way is what makes the sound so annoying.
The question is, why would that bother us? One of the ideas is that a similar kind of roughness appears in a baby's (or adult's) scream and so it is possible we feel the same when we hear the sound of fingernails on a blackboard as to when we hear a person scream. Why are overheard phone conversations so annoying?
A phone conversation is a quintessential(основной) modern annoyance. Our brains are not passive listening devices. We actively listen and expect a certain amount of information to come from the next thing we hear.
In any conversation, we always anticipate the next word. In a phone conversation we cannot do that as we only get half the conversation. The brain keeps listening and listening and then we fall off a "cognitive cliff", where we want to know what the next word is but there is no way of knowing. Why can the love of our life also be the most annoying person we know?
For every positive social or emotional trait(особенность)there is a negative quality. If we initially like someone because they are very nice, we ignore the social cost of being very nice which can mean sometimes people take advantage.
We can then get annoyed when he or she is always working late or taking care of friends. Or we pick somebody who is strong and stoic and then get angry that he or she never shares their emotional state.
The argument is we ignore the social cost of these behaviours when we are initially(изначально)dating because we see the world through rose tinted glasses. Later on we realise there's a social cost that accompanies their behaviour and that's when they start becoming annoying.
I agree that many things are annoy people.We can't control our amotions when we are in anger.It is not well.
-Can you control your amotions? -What irritates you? -Are you nervous person? -What can you do when you nervous? -Why do fingernails on a blackboard make us cringe?
So i think it is natural that there are a lot of things that can make us angry.And of course we must control our emotions. As for me i am not a nervous person and i can do it
I'm not an irritable person, but sometimes one thing can make me angry and rest of the day I'm displeased, agressive and nervous. It's important to can manage our emotions.
Yes! I hate waiting too.It's not for me.I don't know how people can wait for a long time.It's unusual for me.And there are a lot of things that make me nervous!
I try to control emotions, I can not say I am a nervous person. I think it is natural for people to be a little irritated.I can tell that can annoy me. I hate it when other sounds interfere me to focus on something. I do not like when I wait something or someone.
