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Swearing as a painkiller | If you do it, do it right
Cursing has an analgesic effect, we wrote about ten years ago. This may be useful if you reach your pain threshold during intensive training, but it is of course quite vulgar, this shouting of sexual organs and activities, and the mentioning of paradoxical manifestations of religiosity. There are less hurtful curse words. But unfortunately, their pain inhibiting effect is zero.
Study
Richard Stephens and Olly Robertson, two psychologists from Keele University in the UK, wondered whether shouting fouch and twizpipe out loud has as much pain relief as shouting fuck. So they had 102 students hold their hands in ice water at 3-5 degrees Celsius for as long as possible on 4 different occasions.
On one occasion the students repeated the word fuck every 3 seconds, on another occasion the word fouch, on another occasion the word twizpipe, and on a fourth occasion the students repeated a neutral word without much significant emotional load.
Results
However, the non-offensove swear words invented by psychologists had no analgesic effect.
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