Swearing makes you feel better. #$!% yeah!
I can only think of all the pain my parents caused me growing up by telling me not to swear. !@%# that! We all know that swearing makes you feel better when you are in pain. In a report published in this weeks journal NeuroReport researchers at Keele University in England submerged the hands of college students into ice-cold water and measured their pain tolerance, heart rate and perceived pain when saying a neutral word compared with a swear word. No surprise here – swearing increased pain tolerance and heart rate while decreasing perceived pain.
Based on the result psychologist Richard Stephens who led the study said “I would advise people, if they hurt themselves, to swear.”