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Banker et al. (2022) characterized misophonia and its relation to social control through survey measures and a behavioral task, applying factor analysis and a forward thinking computational framework. they found that high Miso-OC individuals overestimate control specifically in uncontrollable contexts and show increased aversion to unexpected social outcomes, indicating a mismatch between perceived and actual control. from this, the authors propose that heightened control beliefs may function as a compensatory mechanism, where an underlying need to regain control over internal or symptomatic experiences leads to exaggerated perceptions of external control, causing strong negative reactions when unpredictable social stimuli violate these expectations (Banker et al., 2022).