Harriet Dempsey-Jones reveals moving helps manage stress

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 behind exactly what causes our drive to distraction remains unclear. In an article with The Conversation, Harriet Dempsey-Jones, a postdoctoral researcher in clinical neurosciences from the University of Oxford, suggests some possible explanations. And she also warns that using these types of toys may give off the wrong impression to people we might be talking to while playing with them. The growing craze for fidget spinners (pictured), marketed as stress relievers, has led to them being banned in some schools.