What makes a person obnoxious

Stephen, as the head of the Christian community, was especially obnoxious to heathen rage. We then made ourselves horribly obnoxious with our machine guns, and opened by arrangement. He stormed and wheedled, threatened and bribed; the obnoxious instrument was constantly brandished before his eyes.

New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See antonyms for obnoxious on Thesaurus. This ability of some people to completely annoy everyone for no apparent reason is a recognized scientific phenomenon. It's called "affective presence" and The Atlantic just investigated the subject in a fascinating article hat tip to The Cut. Researchers call it 'affective presence,'" reports Julie Beck in the piece. For some people their affective presence is a huge positive -- others just relax when they walk in a room.

For other poor, benighted souls their affective presence is a nasty liability. They just instantly annoy everyone. And as of yet no one is quite sure why. It may have to do with body language, or tone of voice, or being a good listener," writes Beck, but what is known is that it isn't just a function of emotions being contagious. People with a negative affective presence don't just annoy others out when they are annoyed themselves. Either they blatantly disregard them, plead ignorance of them when caught violating them, or find endless loopholes and exceptions about why they're inappropriate for their situation.

To be specific, they refuse to get appropriate approval signatures, they will not fill out forms, they refuse to wait their turn in lines, they demand that their case move ahead and outside of normal channels, they insist on access and privilege where others have none.

Obnoxious people offend with insensitive comments. Their remarks go way beyond concern for what may or may not be politically correct.

They simply give no thought to selecting a neutral word or phrase rather than the negative -- when the neutral would deliver the same clear message. They have no filter for what people in the cultural mainstream consider appropriate language for a civilized society. Rudeness is their rule-of-thumb. What they think or feel, they say. To them, nothing is sacred. Obnoxious people offend with thoughtless, uncaring actions.

They give little or no thought to how their words or actions might affect anyone else. In the workplace, they have no regard for reporting relationships; they continually "go around" their boss to a higher executive for approval.

But it is most emphatically rude to say it. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Psychology What makes a person obnoxious? Ben Davis November 5, What makes a person obnoxious? How can you tell if someone is obnoxious? How do you act obnoxious? How do you deal with an obnoxious person? What do you say to an obnoxious person? What do you call someone who is obnoxious? How do you defend yourself against rude people?

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