Was the control group silence or yelling non-profanities? Because saying/yelling “ow” tends to be fairly effective.
This paper compared repeating a profanity to repeating an alternate arbitrary word, not “ow.” (first hit searching “swearing pain” on google scholar)
I don’t remember anything else about the thing I read.
Was the control group silence or yelling non-profanities? Because saying/yelling “ow” tends to be fairly effective.
This paper compared repeating a profanity to repeating an alternate arbitrary word, not “ow.” (first hit searching “swearing pain” on google scholar)
I don’t remember anything else about the thing I read.