id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8718 Annoyance - Wikipedia .html text/html 1048 232 47 Annoyance Wikipedia Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. 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.[1] 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. Social emotional development Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8718.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8718.txt