When you’re in pain, go ahead and curse. It helps in lessening the pain!

Cursing when having pain helps in pain diminishing it seems

Yes indeed, cursing does help in withstand the pain afflicted on you. A recent NeuroReport publication revealed this interesting study done by Keele University’s School of Psychology.

They got some 60 undergraduates and they were told to put their hands in a bucket of freezing ice-filled water. The study was made on the pain level with students who cursed and those repeating neutral PG-words.

Well what do you know, the ones who cursed tend to be able to withstand putting their hand in the 41-degree icy water much longer for an average of 190 seconds. While those who cursed PG-words only averaged 140 seconds.

The researchers suggests that there’s a link between bad words and lesser pain perception. People’s heart-rate was higher when cursing, and fuels emotions such as fear and anger which mask the pain better.

The scientists was quoted, “Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon. It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain. Our research shows one potential reason why swearing developed and why it persists.”