When someone that wears glasses is listening to someone...?

Question

why does he/she put one part of their of the glasses that hang over their ear in their mouth?

Answer 1

Having it in their mouth interferes with their speaking.

That prevents them from blurting out something like "Why would I care about that?" or "Keep yammering. I am just staring at your body without hearing a word you are saying."

Answer 2

If I take my glasses off and start to chew on the stem, it's because it helps me focus. My mind likes to wander, especially when people talk, so if I allow my mind to multi-task (listening and chewing on the stem) I feel I focus better on what the person is saying. It could also be due to an oral fixation. This relates to a psychology theory where too much or too little stimulation during the stages of growth will cause the person to have a fixation at that stage (that's where we get anal retentive from, except it's not as wierd as it sounds.) The person could have an oral fixation and thus would find chewing on things relaxing...smoking also, or even talking constantly.

Also, to the people who said "i've never done that" or such and such, why waste your time with that answer? It's not like you'll get anything out of it. On top of that, just because you don't doesn't mean other people don't; obviously the person asking the question has seen it done before.

Answer 3

I don't think it has so much to do with people with glasses as people with oral fixations. If these same people didn't wear glasses they would probably be chewing a pen cap. I don't find it helps focusing on what others are saying. In fact I think chewing on anything can be not only a distraction for the listener, but the speaker as well.

Answer 4

I wear glasses and I don't do that, but its like the same reason, people put their hand on their chin when they are listening or thinking

Answer 5

I don't do that...if I take off my glasses, I won't be able to see the person I am talking to!

Answer 6

Freud originally believed that the individual’s sense of self was developed in relation to the management of early instinctual drives, which Freud defined as libido. In the first six or so years of the child’s life, said Freud, these instinctual drives passed through three stages: oral, anal, and genital. Consequently, the caregiver’s response to these various stages would have highly significant formative effects on the individual’s adult personality. For example, let’s suppose an infant doesn’t receive sufficient food when passing through the oral stage of libidinal development. Later, as an adult, this person is likely to still be stuck at this stage. If he feels that he is not receiving enough affection, career fulfillment, or sexual satisfaction, he may substitute the comfort of food, thereby unconsciously translating his adult desire into this unresolved infantile need. Similarly, if the individual encounters significant obstacles during potty training, for instance, she may suffer from poor digestion as an adult, or manifest other "anal retentive" characteristics such as compulsive housecleaning, etc. The individual who feels particularly rejected or overstimulated during the genital phase, likely encountering much guilt and shame at the onset of puberty, may later find it extremely difficult to engage in a normal, adult sexual relationship.

In many psychological circles, classical drive theory is considered rather archaic. Nonetheless, the idea that the difficulties the individual encounters early on play a very important role in the development of the self still pervades psychological thought. Moreover, examining the differing effect of emotional conflict at various early stages of personality development is still considered an essential means to understanding and addressing adult personality traits. For that matter, Freud’s oral, anal, and genital stages aren’t nearly so arbitrary and odd as they may initially sound. Correlations between personality organization and these developmental phases have been well documented by both early and contemporary psychologists. The anal retentive individual, for example, commonly has dreams with various problematic bathroom scenarios—situations in which he or she is unable to control his or her bladder, can’t find a suitable restroom, etc. Likewise, an individual partially arrested at the oral stage of development commonly dreams of enormous feasts, experiences frequent dream scenarios in which adult sexual hunger is somehow mingled with childish food hunger and so on. Intuitively—however bizarre we may find Freud’s early ideas at first glance—most of us seem to find some significant merit in classical drive theory as, to this day, phrases such as "oral fixation," "anal retentive," "penis envy" and so on, are quite common in popular culture.

Answer 7

No idea, I don't. Probably just a nervous habit that some people develop.

Answer 8

Habit?

Answer 9

Maybe its just their signature thing. Maybe they think it makes them look cooler. I am pretty sure a bunch of people do it.

Answer 10

TO look like they are really thinking about what is being said.