Words can be tallied. Words were. This study gives details: “Cursing in English on Twitter,” Wenbo Wang, Lu Chen, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan [pictured here], and Amit P. Sheth, paper presented at CSCW’14 , February 15-19 2014, Baltimore, MD, USA. The authors, at Wright State University, explain: “In this paper, we examine the characteristics of cursing activity […]
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“Swearing – the Language of Life and Death”
Richard Stephens has published a life and death account of research about swearing: “Swearing – the Language of Life and Death,” Richard Stephens, The Psychologist, vol. 26, pt. 9, September 2013, pp. 650-653. In 2010, Professor Stephens and two of his students were awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize. The citation reads: Richard Stephens, John Atkins, […]
Ugly and Pretty Paintings, and Laser Beams, and Swearing
Prior to 2008 no one knew, at all precisely, the pain people suffer when they gaze at an ugly painting – relative to what they’d feel if they were looking at a pretty picture – while a stranger shoots them in the back of the hand with a powerful laser beam. Now something is known about the subject. The […]
Swearing Can Repel Emotional Support
A new paper is the first (by other authors) to cite the 2010 Ig Nobel Peace Prize-winning paper by Richard Stephens, et al., about how swearing relieves physical pain. The new study is: “Naturalistically observed swearing, emotional support, and depressive symptoms in women coping with illness,” Megan L Robbins, Elizabeth S Focella, Shelley Kasle, Ana […]