F@#k pain! The effect of taboo language and gesture on the experience of pain - Hostetter AB, Rascon-Powell DK.

Swearing has been shown to reduce the experience of pain in a cold pressor task, and the effect has been suggested to be due to state aggression. In the present experiment, we examined whether producing a taboo gesture (i.e., the American gesture of raisin...
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