Pet Peeve

Under a Pet Peeve [' pɛt pi ː v] (English about " favorite nuisance " ) is understood in the popular psychological discourse of the English space a trivial nuisance that feels a certain person as a particularly morose, while others in the same little thing little or no would take offense.

Conceptual history

The expression and the word pet ( pet, favorite, Hätschel ) goes back to the old adjective peevish ( irritable, fretful ), can be shown in English since about 1919.

Description

As the American psychologist Robin Kowalski, a pioneer of the scientific study of self- mourning, has observed circling a large part of the human lamentation trivial, small annoyances that are taken by the person concerned, with great sensitivity to the attention. Most other people would ignore more or less on the same occasion emotionless. Many Pet Peeves refer to habits of a person with whom the Wailing closely lives (eg, " I hate it when he constantly leaves the toothpaste tube open"); others concern the behavior of a stranger ( "People who let their dogs poop on the sidewalk and then the legacy not put away ").