Limited swearing helps relieve negative emotions

According to recent research by British scientists, swearing is a harmless way to relieve negative emotions, but only works within a certain limit.

Instead of proving that we swear more often when we feel angry, this new study by psychologists has shown that swearing sentences can also act as an emotional response mechanism. contact, help us become more persistent. In addition, swearing not only comes from the rude but the real reason is more complicated than that.

Psychologists at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, have spent several years studying how people swear, and the effects of swearing on our brains.

In an experiment in this study, volunteers participated in playing some exciting games, and were asked to raise as many words of swearing as possible before and after playing games. . The results showed that before playing, they could tell an average of about 7 words, but after playing, this number increased to 8 words.

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Dr Richard Stephens said: "These games make volunteers become more excited, so the language they use is more expressive, and they swear. This explains the reason for the curse. swear and make this more acceptable, the words that are supposed to be vulgar will be used more by us when we are touched, which makes us feel stronger. The profanity of the words is different - the stronger the word, the greater the effect they make. "

Dr. Stephens also made a previous study that shows that swearing makes us more persistent. In the experiment, each volunteer held a cold glass in his hand and was divided into two groups: one group was asked to swear, and the other group remained silent. Researchers have found that the swearing group can hold a cold cup on hand for longer than the other group.

In addition, Dr. Stephens's team also looked at other studies, and according to Dr., the results completely disprove the hypothesis that swearing is the language of poorly understood people.

"Prejudices about people who swear, say that they have low IQ or poor expression ability is completely wrong. Swearing is a rich language ." However, Dr. Stephens also said: "The more swearing is, the less it works."

On the other hand, not everyone agrees that swearing is harmless. British sports channel BT Sport did not conduct interviews with fans after the match between Arsenal and Liverpool in February due to fears that the fans will swear while being interviewed. In addition, Russian President Vladimir Putin last week also signed a bill to ban swearing in plays, films and books of Russia.