Pet Peeve
A Pet Peeve [ 'p dest piːv ] ( English for "favorite annoyance") is understood in the popular psychological discourse in the English-speaking world to be a trivial annoyance that a certain person perceives as particularly annoying, while others feel little or no about the same little thing Would take offense.
In scientific psychological jargon one speaks more of an idiosyncrasy .
Concept history
The expression, which goes back to the old adjective peevish (irritable, annoying) and the word pet (pet, darling, cuddling), has been in English since around 1919.
description
As the American psychologist Robin Kowalski , a pioneer in the scientific study of complaining , has observed, a large part of human complaint revolves around trivial, small annoyances, which the person concerned takes note of with great sensitivity. Most other people would overlook the same occasion more or less emotionlessly. Many Pet Peeves refer to the habits of a person with whom the complainant lives closely (eg, "I hate it when he keeps leaving the tube of toothpaste open"); others concern the behavior of strangers ("people who let their dogs poop on the sidewalk and then don't clean up the leftovers").
literature
Scientific literature :
- Robin Kowalski: Complaining, teasing, and other annoying behaviors . Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-300-09971-1 ( limited online version in Google Book Search - USA )
Advisory literature :
- Ernstfried Hanisch: There is an elephant in every mosquito: Good reasons to get angry about little things ... and ways to regain your inner balance . dtv, 2009, ISBN 3-423-24740-1
List of Popular Pet Peeves :
- Louie Hulme: Pet Peeves: More than 200 Irritations from Everyday Life , Summit Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-56530-129-3
Web links
- David Segal: Enough, Already! One Consumer's Pet Peeves In: The New York Times , August 21, 2010
- Liat Kornowski: 76 Incredibly Accurate Pet Peeves That Will Drive. You. Nuts. In: Huffington Post , April 1, 2019