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Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's
thought. The words definition is also similar to the word perturb, however, perturb has been replaced with the English word, disturb in modern English society. It can lead to emotions such as
frustration and
anger. A person can be annoying to one, but not to another. This is all a matter of opinion.
Related terms
Annoyance
An
annoyance is a stimulus that can produce a state of annoyance in a person. It can be in the form of a persistent and mild physical stimulus, a younger sibling, a delayed train, an immature friend or the continued hindrance from achieving a goal. Oftentimes severe and deliberate annoyance can be caused by somebody in a close vicinity, such as the room next to yours, who is tapping or slapping a desk or fixed object continuously and to various beats.
Annoy
Annoy (like the
French language ennui, a word traced by etymologists to a
Latin phrase,
in odio esse, to be "in hatred" or hateful of someone), to vex or affect with irritation. In the sense of "nuisance," the noun "
annoyance" is found in the English "Jury of Annoyance" appointed by an act of 1754 to report upon obstructions in the highways.
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,
commercials, and jingle, 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.Dean G Pruitt, John C Parker, Joseph M Mikolic. Escalation as a reaction to persistent annoyance.
International Journal of Conflict Management. Bowling Green: Jul 1997.Vol.8, Iss. 3; pg. 252, 19 pgs 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.Mark Potok. FBI grinds away at cult
USA Today 14 April 1993 01A
Effects
Annoyance can cause stress, leading to high blood pressure, and other illnesses.
Annoyance in United States law
The Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 made the communication of anything "indecent with the intent to annoy" a felony punishable by a fine and up to two-year imprisonment. President Bill Clinton signed the CDA into law after it was passed by Congress in February 1996. Artist and activist
Clinton Fein filed the lawsuit,
Apollomedia v. Reno , against Janet Reno, former United States Attorney General, challenging the constitutionality of the CDA, at the same time he launched his Annoy.com web site, designed to clarify the notions of both indecent and annoying. A three-judge panel in
United States District Court for the Northern District of California decided against him in a divided decision. Fein filed a Supreme Court of the United States appeal, which he won in 1999.
Popular Culture
Annoyance and annoyances have often been made the subjects of
humor and amusement.
For example, the web site AmIAnnoying.com allows visitors to vote on which
celebrities they find annoying.
In many comedic
double acts humor comes from the annoyance that the comic's actions create for the
comic foil. An act may also feature a person dealing violently with the annoying other (such as
Punch and Judy)
Software
Annoyances are used to measure how well a software program conforms to (or competes against) user expectations about how a particular feature or package should work. Individual annoyances are routinely archived and catalogued by users and reviewers. Such archives often include "annoyance busters" or "workarounds" that can be used to resolve or ameliorate the irritating effects. For top-selling software titles, archives of annoyances and workarounds are often published.
See also
References
Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's
thought. The words definition is also similar to the word perturb, however, perturb has been replaced with the English word, disturb in modern English society. It can lead to
emotions such as frustration and
anger. A person can be annoying to one, but not to another. This is all a matter of opinion.
Related terms
Annoyance
An
annoyance is a stimulus that can produce a state of annoyance in a person. It can be in the form of a persistent and mild physical stimulus, a younger sibling, a delayed train, an immature friend or the continued hindrance from achieving a goal. Oftentimes severe and deliberate annoyance can be caused by somebody in a close vicinity, such as the room next to yours, who is tapping or slapping a desk or fixed object continuously and to various beats.
Annoy
Annoy (like the French language
ennui, a word traced by etymologists to a Latin phrase,
in odio esse, to be "in hatred" or hateful of someone), to vex or affect with irritation. In the sense of "nuisance," the noun "
annoyance" is found in the English "Jury of Annoyance" appointed by an act of 1754 to report upon obstructions in the highways.
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, commercials, and jingle, 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.Dean G Pruitt, John C Parker, Joseph M Mikolic. Escalation as a reaction to persistent annoyance.
International Journal of Conflict Management. Bowling Green: Jul 1997.Vol.8, Iss. 3; pg. 252, 19 pgs 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.Mark Potok. FBI grinds away at cult
USA Today 14 April 1993 01A
Effects
Annoyance can cause stress, leading to
high blood pressure, and other illnesses.
Annoyance in United States law
The
Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 made the communication of anything "indecent with the intent to annoy" a felony punishable by a fine and up to two-year imprisonment. President Bill Clinton signed the CDA into law after it was passed by Congress in February 1996. Artist and activist
Clinton Fein filed the lawsuit,
Apollomedia v. Reno , against Janet Reno, former United States Attorney General, challenging the constitutionality of the CDA, at the same time he launched his Annoy.com web site, designed to clarify the notions of both indecent and annoying. A three-judge panel in United States District Court for the Northern District of California decided against him in a divided decision. Fein filed a Supreme Court of the United States appeal, which he won in 1999.
Popular Culture
Annoyance and annoyances have often been made the subjects of
humor and
amusement.
For example, the web site AmIAnnoying.com allows visitors to vote on which
celebrities they find annoying.
In many comedic double acts humor comes from the annoyance that the comic's actions create for the
comic foil. An act may also feature a person dealing violently with the annoying other (such as
Punch and Judy)
Software
Annoyances are used to measure how well a software program conforms to (or competes against) user expectations about how a particular feature or package should work. Individual annoyances are routinely archived and catalogued by users and reviewers. Such archives often include "annoyance busters" or "workarounds" that can be used to resolve or ameliorate the irritating effects. For top-selling software titles, archives of annoyances and workarounds are often published.
See also
References
