Researchers find swearing has health benefits

[Dennis Baron]

yeah, it's a pre-pub available on line
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On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> At 5:49 PM -0500 7/15/09, Dennis Baron wrote:
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>> Researchers find swearing has health benefits. If you're in pain,
>> curse twice and call me in the morning
>> People who swear when they're hurt feel less pain than those who
>> don't. At least that's the conclusion of a team of psychologists
>> from England's Keele University.
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>> The researchers asked 67 undergraduates to stick their hands in ice
>> water while repeating a curse word of their choice, and then to do
>> it again while repeating a non-swear word they had also chosen
>> (Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston, "Swearing as a
>> response to pain," NeuroReport 20 [Aug. 5, 2009]
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> Besides helping one to cope with pain, swearing evidently also proves
> effective at facilitating time travel.
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> LH
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>> : 1056-60). Swearers were able to keep their hands in the 5 degree
>> C. water longer than non-swearers (though one participant did have
>> to drop out of the study out because the "curse word" the student
>> picked wasn't actually a curse word).
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>> Dennis Baron
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>> Department of English
>> University of Illinois
>> 608 S. Wright St.
>> Urbana, IL 61801
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>> office: 217-244-0568
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