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Swearing reduces the experience of pain.
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CONTESTED PARTIAL
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Is it true that Swearing reduces the experience of pain?
Partly. Laboratory cold-pressor work reports that swearing and taboo acts can raise pain tolerance and lower perceived pain, while a later study of taboo gestures found largely null results and only limited evidence that taboo schemas produce hypoalgesia. The retrieved material covers the effect only in narrow experimental settings, not the general claim as stated.
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Is pain lessened by swearing?. (2011). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2957/is-pain-lessened-by-swearing
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Jacobs, M., Beest, I. v., & Stephens, R. (2019). Taboo gesticulations as a response to pain.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2018-0321
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AB, H. & DK, R. (2024). F@#k Pain! The Effect of Taboo Language and Gesture on the Experience of Pain.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941221125776
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Custom Research Methods for Temple University. (2015). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/customresearchme0000unse
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