Noise: Noise Annoyance

• “Psychological response to unwanted or disturbing sounds, encompassing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions.”
• Globally, road traffic noise is the primary source of noise annoyance, while neighborhood noise is another substantial but understudied contributor.
• ISO standards provide a framework for assessing noise annoyance through population surveys, utilizing the percentage of highly annoyed metric.
• Acoustic characteristics of noise exposure, such as intensity, frequency, complexity, and duration, do not solely determine noise annoyance reactions.
• Influenced by personal, social, and situational factors, encompassing age, sex, health status, noise sensitivity, attitude toward noise, socioeconomic status, public perception, perceived stress, and coping abilities." (Münzel, et al., 2020)