Maciej Kazimierz Adamski

Why Do Friction Sounds Trigger Aversion? The Haptic-Auditory Hypothesis of Substrate Failure and Sensory Piggybacking

Abstract This paper proposes a novel evolutionary hypothesis to explain the widespread human aversion to high-frequency, stick-slip friction sounds, such as fingernails on a chalkboard or a knife scraping on a plate. Integrating solid-state physics, evolutionary biology and psych...