The scientist and swearing professional also references one particularly interesting study which found that swearing when a person experiences pain (like sticking their hand in ice cold water) increases their tolerance to the pain source by 50 percent compared to someone shouting a neutral word, WIRED reports. “Learning how to use swearing effectively, with the support of empathetic adults, is far better than trying to ban children from using such language,” Byrne said. He constantly reminded me swearing is what “non-intelligent people say when they can’t think of anything clever.” Needless to say, I haven’t adopted the same relationship to swearing with my kids and it turns out, I may be on to something. Mind you, I grew up with a father I heard say “damn” once in my 44 years only because he dropped a glass vase on his toe. . In a sparkling debut in the entertaining pop science vein of Mary Roach, scientist Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good. So why wouldn’t our kids benefit from those same feelings in a safe environment? While I know little about the science behind all of it but I, for one, feel so much better releasing a big old “ Go fuck yourselffffffffff,” into the abyss that is typically my car when I’m alone. In her book, Byrne also says swearing has been shown to lower the effects of physical pain, reduce anxiety, help trauma victims recover language, and promotes “human cooperation” in kids.
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