Misophonic symptoms in non-psychotic psychiatric outpatients and its association with trait psychological variables

Çolak, Burçin; Duman, Berker; Herdi, Oğuzhan; İlhan, Rıfat Serav; Sakarya, Direnç

doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2021.100644

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“…Estimates of Misophonia prevalence range from about six to twenty percent of the population, depending on the criteria used, and Misophonia tends to impact more women than men ( Potgieter et al, 2019 ). Misophonia has been characterized as a chronic disorder, and can be comorbid with other conditions, for example, obsessive–compulsive disorder, anxiety, and the personality trait of neuroticism ( Cusack et al, 2018 ; Erfanian et al, 2019 ; Cassiello-Robbins et al, 2020 , 2021 ; Çolak et al, 2021 ). Although Misophonia is similar to other sound intolerance disorders such as Hyperacusis, a number of researchers have made a strong case for Misophonia being a unique disorder in terms of its specific symptoms and neural responses ( Edelstein et al, 2013 ; Cavanna and Seri, 2015 ; Kumar et al, 2017 ; Taylor, 2017 ; Brout et al, 2018 ).…”

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Identification of Everyday Sounds Affects Their Pleasantness

Heller

Smith

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines the role of source identification in the emotional response to everyday sounds. Although it is widely acknowledged that sound identification modulates the unpleasantness of sounds, this assumption is based on sparse evidence on a select few sounds. We gathered more robust evidence by having listeners judge the causal properties of sounds, such as actions, materials, and causal agents. Participants also identified and rated the pleasantness of the sounds. We included sounds from a variety of emotional categories, such as Neutral, Misophonic, Unpleasant, and Pleasant. The Misophonic category consists of everyday sounds that are uniquely distressing to a subset of listeners who suffer from Misophonia. Sounds from different emotional categories were paired together based on similar causal properties. This enabled us to test the prediction that a sound’s pleasantness should increase or decrease if it is misheard as being in a more or less pleasant emotional category, respectively. Furthermore, we were able to induce more misidentifications by imposing spectral degradation in the form of envelope vocoding. Several instances of misidentification were obtained, all of which showed pleasantness changes that agreed with our predictions.

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Identification of Everyday Sounds Affects Their Pleasantness

Heller

Smith

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Our results add to prior evidence for links between misophonia, ASMR, and musical chills. Specifically, the tendency to experience the three emotional phenomena was correlated with overlapping personality characteristics such as neuroticism [37][38][39] and openness to experience [39,50,61,62]. Furthermore, fMRI studies show that all three experiences co-occur with activity in brain areas such as the insula, ventral striatum, and cingulate cortex [17][18][19][20][68][69][70][71]101].…”

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Misophonia reactions in the general population are correlated with strong emotional reactions to other everyday sensory-emotional experiences

Mednicoff,

Barashy,

Vollweiler

et al. 2023

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Although misophonia may be a diagnosable disorder, misophonic reactions are common in the general population, and they may shed light on everyday emotional reactions to multi-modal stimuli. We performed an online study of a non-clinical sample to understand the extent to which adults who have misophonic reactions are generally reactive to a range of audio-visual emotion-inducing stimuli. We also hypothesized that musicality might be predictive of one’s emotional reactions to these stimuli because music is an activity that involves strong connections between sensory processing and meaningful emotional experiences. Participants completed self-report scales of misophonia and musicality, and watched videos meant to induce misophonia, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), and musical chills, and responded by clicking a button when they had any sort of emotional reaction. At the end of each video, they rated the emotional valence and arousal of the video. Reactions to misophonia videos were predicted by reactions to ASMR and chills videos, which could indicate that the frequency with which individuals experience emotional responses varies similarly across both negative and positive emotional contexts. Musicality scores did not correlate with measures of misophonia. These findings could reflect a general phenotype of stronger emotional reactivity to meaningful sensory inputs.

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“…Our results add to prior evidence for links between misophonia, ASMR and musical chills. Specifically, the tendency to experience the three emotional phenomena was correlated with overlapping personality characteristics such as neuroticism [37–39] and openness to experience [39,50,61,62]. Furthermore, fMRI studies show that all three experiences co-occur with activity in brain areas such as the insula, ventral striatum and cingulate cortex [17–20,67–71].…”

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“…ASMR and misophonia share some triggers, and people who tend to experience ASMR are more likely to experience misophonia than those who do not experience ASMR [35,36]. There is also evidence for overlap in personality traits associated with both ASMR and misophonia, such as neuroticism [37][38][39] and schizotypal traits [40,41].…”

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Misophonia reactions in the general population are correlated with strong emotional reactions to other everyday sensory–emotional experiences

Mednicoff,

Barashy,

Vollweiler

et al. 2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Misophonic experiences are common in the general population, and they may shed light on everyday emotional reactions to multi-modal stimuli. We performed an online study of a non-clinical sample to understand the extent to which adults who have misophonic reactions are generally reactive to a range of audio-visual emotion-inducing stimuli. We also hypothesized that musicality might be predictive of one's emotional reactions to these stimuli because music is an activity that involves strong connections between sensory processing and meaningful emotional experiences. Participants completed self-report scales of misophonia and musicality. They also watched videos meant to induce misophonia, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and musical chills, and were asked to click a button whenever they had any emotional reaction to the video. They also rated the emotional valence and arousal of each video. Reactions to misophonia videos were predicted by reactions to ASMR and chills videos, which could indicate that the frequency with which individuals experience emotional responses varies similarly across both negative and positive emotional contexts. Musicality scores were not correlated with measures of misophonia. These findings could reflect a general phenotype of stronger emotional reactivity to meaningful sensory inputs. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Sensing and feeling: an integrative approach to sensory processing and emotional experience’.

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Misophonic symptoms in non-psychotic psychiatric outpatients and its association with trait psychological variables

Cited by 5 publications

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Identification of Everyday Sounds Affects Their Pleasantness

Identification of Everyday Sounds Affects Their Pleasantness

Misophonia reactions in the general population are correlated with strong emotional reactions to other everyday sensory-emotional experiences

Misophonia reactions in the general population are correlated with strong emotional reactions to other everyday sensory–emotional experiences

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