Looking for ways to beat stress at school? Discover how to create your own fidget toys that are perfect for relieving tension ...

The shadowy data company responded by announcing a possibly tongue-in-cheek new ‘Neurodivergent Fellowship’ for those who, like the boss, are “unable to sit still, or thinking faster than you can ...

Sometimes when I’m in a boring meeting, my knee starts bouncing. Or I gently rock my office chair. I asked my friend Amanda Stueber why that helps me. She’s a psychologist at Washington State ...

Ever been bored out of your mind and found yourself twiddling a pen, drawing a doodle, or just generally fidgeting with anything nearby? Turns out that same behavior could promote creative thinking ...

The guy who's filling his notepad with drawings in the meeting? The coworker whose leg is running like a jackhammer? It's possibly more than boredom or caffeine powering them. Some researchers suggest ...

Bouncing your leg, tapping your foot, drumming your fingers. These are all signs of fidgety behaviors. Fidgeting, which was once commonly deemed inappropriate, has been discovered to have beneficial ...

Fidgeting didn't start with the spinner craze. If you've ever clicked a ballpoint pen again and again, you've used a fidget item. As part of our work, we've asked people what items they like to fidget ...

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Everyone fidgets...except maybe for those guards in front of Buckingham Palace. Whether it's touching your hair, biting your nails, playing with your clothing or spinning pens in your hands, you ...

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Hand-held toys known as “fidget spinners” – marketed as “stress relievers” – have become so popular and distracting in classrooms that they are now being banned in many schools. And it’s not just kids ...