The study is published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology. It has to be annoying like that, and it’s the same with the whine.'
S he explains: 'Nobody wants to sit around and listen to a fire engine siren either, but if you hear the siren go off, it gets your attention. It was found that after child whines, the most distracting sounds were infant cries, followed by motherese (child-like speech parents sometimes use to communicate with their children).Īccording to Chang, it may be owing to an evolutionary adaptation that humans are so affected by the sound of a child in distress - spurring a parent to act in order to defend their vulnerable offspring.īut she also believes the annoyance stems from an involuntary ability to 'tune in'. To ensure the words themselves weren't causing volunteers to lose focus, foreign language speech samples were used in the study.
'It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman, everybody’s equally distracted,' said Chang.
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