petulance

　

PrepTutorEJDIC

1. (つまらないことを原因とする)(…に抵する)不きげん,気むずかしさ《+『at』+『名』》

Wikipedia preview

出典(authority):フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』「2013/03/20 03:08:17」(JST)

wiki en

[Wiki en表示]

"Annoy" redirects here. For the minesweeper, see USS Annoy (AM-84).

"Annoyed" redirects here. For the film, see Annoyed (film).

For the comedy club, see Annoyance Theatre.

Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability.

Psychology

Various reasons exist for why one finds particular stimuli annoying. Measurement of annoyance is highly subjective. As an attempt at measurement, psychological studies on annoyance often rely on their subjects' own ratings of levels of annoyance on a scale. Many stimuli that one is at first neutral to, or even finds pleasant, can turn into annoyances from repeated continued exposure. One can often encounter this phenomenon with such media as popular music, memes, commercials, and advertising jingles, which by their very nature are continually repeated over a period of weeks or months.

A study published in the International Journal of Conflict Management found that one's response to an annoyance, at least when the perceived cause is another person, escalate to more extreme levels as they go unresolved. It also found that one was more likely to blame the party who was causing the annoyance in the study, rather than one's self, for the annoyance as it escalated.

Psychological warfare can involve creating annoyances to distract and wear down the resistance of the target. For example, in 1993, the FBI played music "specifically selected for its irritation ability" on loudspeakers outside the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas in an attempt to bring about the surrender of David Koresh and his followers.

See also

• Absurd humor
• Agitation
• Distraction
• Frustration
• Pet peeve
• Social alienation

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

English Journal

• The petulance of the TUC.

• [No authors listed]
• Nursing mirror.Nurs Mirror.1981 Sep 2;153(10):3.
• PMID 6911641

Related Links

• Petulance | Define Petulance at Dictionary.com

Fortunately, Boehner has elected to ignore this display of petulance and continue with his landmark attempt to sue the president.

• petulance - definition of petulance by The Free Dictionary

Her continual disagreements with her mother, her rash squabbles with Tom and Charles, and petulance with Betsey, were at least so distressing to Fanny that, though admitting they were by no means without provocation, she feared ...

Related Pictures