NOSE PICKING is a form of human behaviour that has received far too little
scientific attention, but at last that neglect is being redressed. In the June
issue of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Chittaranjan
Andrade and B.S. Srihari report on a study of nose picking in a sample of 200
adolescents from four urban schools.
Almost the entire sample admitted to nose picking, the authors tell us, with
17 per cent considering they had a serious nose-picking problem. Pointing out
that “there is little world literature on nose-picking behaviour in the general
population”, the authors conclude that “nose picking…
