Psychological Measurements of Annoyance as Related to Pitch and Loudness

The Concept of Noise Annoyance: How International Experts See It

“…In one of the earliest experimental studies of sounds and annoyance, Laird and Coye [7] referred to Titchener's theory of emotion which states that we do not just accept stimuli as they are, we also experience them affectively, and the affects they produce are called pleasure and displeasure. Thus, annoyance is considered as an elementary affective process related to the source of the stimulation.…”

Some Effects of Noise on Human Behavior

“…The subjects were 80 soldiers, volunteers, age [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Each subject participated for 1 -3 days, about 6hours per day interrupted only midday by a lunch period.…”

Effects of punishment for errors on discrimination learning by humans.

“…These seemed to be satisfactorily equally spaced. Laird and Coye (1929) found that equal annoyance curves tend to parallel closely equal loudness curves for tones of higher frequency. It is assumed that the tones used represent equal intervals of annoyance and thus equal intervals of punishment.…”