Cursing and Pain Relief
Posted in Psychology on Jul 14th, 2009
Science
Cursing and Pain Relief
By By Nicholas Bakalar
Published: July 13, 2009
If you bang your thumb with a hammer, does it really lessen the pain to let loose with a string of curse words? Automatically or involuntarily cursing under such circumstances is extremely common, if not universal, and a group of British scientists wondered if cursing helps [...]
