Sometimes 'Dad-Gummit' Just Won't Do: Researchers Say That Profanity Can Increase Pain Tolerance by Artsjournal1

British researchers found that subjects could bear a painful stimulus for 33% longer by repeating the f-word than by repeating a regular or a made-up word. Why? They think (for now) that it's because of either the sympathetic or the parasympathetic nervous system. " Public Radio International

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