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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Paper clips, stress balls, clicking pens, rubber bands, magnets. Most of us mindlessly fidget with something while we ponder a project, listen to a lecture, or work through a problem, and two ...

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Mild fidgeting with your feet, legs, arms, hands, or eyes isn’t life-threatening. More serious fidgeting caused by ADHD and restless leg syndrome can be managed with proper treatment. Fidgeting is ...

Fidgeting is usually considered as a sign of boredom or lack of attention which can be distracting to others. Parents and teachers often demand that their children and pupils stop doing it. But ...

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 ...