Why an outburst of F-words can help reduce pain from UK Daily Mail reports that now there is research to support the salutory effects of swearing - a boon for the First Amendmnet and a blow to the Second Commandment.
Swearing helps reduce pain, according to new research.
A study of responses to pain found that people who cursed in response to pain could cope with being hurt for nearly 50 per cent longer than their clean-speaking peers.
When they started their research, experts at Keele University's School of Psychology thought that cursing would lower pain tolerance.
But after monitoring the reactions of 64 volunteers, stunned research leader Dr Richard Stephens and colleagues John Atkins and Andrew Kingston found that swearing actually had a beneficial effect.
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