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Do you also bite your nails and can't get rid of this habit. However, do your know why do people bite their nails? What is reason behind nail biting?
Let's know,
Nail biting is also called as onychophagia in scientific language. It is a bad habit and there is no specific reason that can prove why people love to do it.
Three things are essential to form a habit, trigger, action and reward. In case of nail biting, according to a research, a broken nail which is hurting can do the work of trigger. Later, biting and removing this nail is action. When this broken nail is taken off and the pain is reduced, this is reward.
If we again encounter same triggers like a broken nail, we repeat the same action to get a reward. Which gradually causes Onychophagia and thus, we get a habit of nail biting.
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