One study has shown that people suffering from physiological reactions to excess noise, such as hearing loss, insomnia, and irascibility, often fail to identify the cause and fail to take appropriate measures against it.
台大心理系教授黃榮村曾與副教授吳英璋在噪音汙染頗嚴重的桃園大園鄉及高雄市作調查，發現兩地居民在碰到明顯地由噪音造成的生理反應，像耳朵聽不見、失眠、脾氣暴躁等毛病時，並不一定覺得是噪音所造成的，也不大會對噪音源作根本的處理。