We’ve all been there: Sitting in class, writing up a report, or logged on to the virtual meeting and struggling to stay engaged. Maybe you have a go-to method of dealing with it. Perhaps you’re a ...

Next time you find yourself restless and fidgeting at work, you may want to think twice before stopping. It may be doing your health some good, new research suggests. But fidgeting in your chair may ...

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 ...

Fidgeting has proven perks. “We know that sensory input and movement, big or small, can help with handling feelings,” says psychologist Michelle Frank, Psy.D., author of A Radical Guide for Women with ...

UNITED KINGDOM (WABC) -- Fidgeters are actually doing more than just distracting other people by their constant movements - they might be improving their health. A new study of more than 12,000 UK ...

Ever wonder why you bounce your leg, drum your fingers or click and unclick your pen until your colleagues beg you to stop? But as many of us know, it can be a challenge to tear away from our ...

Meetings are a fact of business life. Sure, a lot of things can be accomplished via email, IM or Slack, but sometimes you have to meet face to face or over video conference. These are good things–face ...

A new review paper in The Neuroscientist highlights the problem of body movements for neuroscience, from blinks to fidgeting. Authors Patrick J Drew and colleagues of Penn State discuss how many types ...

Sitting is basically the new smoking. An ever-growing body of research is showing that being sedentary and sitting for long periods of time are linked to poor health consequences, including a laundry ...

Children and adults alike share an often unconscious need to fiddle and fidget, and the market for toys and gadgets to tackle these temptations seems to have exploded in recent years. But the science ...