>From the current New Scientist.
Jeff
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http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opfeedback.jsp?id=ns230399#21
Nose Picking--The Shameful Truth
NOSE PICKING is a form of human behaviour that has received far too
little scientific attention, but at last that neglect is being
redressed. In the June issue of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry,
Chittaranjan Andrade and B. S.Srihari report on a study of nose picking
in a sample of 200 adolescents from four urban schools.
Almost the entire sample admitted to nose picking, the authors tell us,
with 17 per cent considering they had a serious nose-picking problem.
Pointing out that "there is little world literature on nose-picking
behaviour in the general population", the authors conclude that "nose
picking is common among adolescents" and that "nose picking may merit
closer epidemiologic and nosologic [sic] scrutiny".
Perhaps most important of all, Andrade and Srihari introduce a new term
for the activity--rhinotillexomania. You may care to remember that the
next time you are looking round at other drivers in a traffic jam.
--
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