Curiosity Daily Podcast: Fidget-Hating Misokinesia, Blood Fainting, Infrasound Ghosts
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.
October 27, 2021
Episode Show Notes:
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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