In fact, swearing may be a sign of verbal superiority, studies have shown, and may provide other possible rewards as well. Cursing may be a sign of intelligence. Read More. Well-educated people with plenty of words at their disposal, a study found, were better at coming up with curse words than those who were less verbally fluent.
Want to live longer? Be an optimist, study says. Participants were asked to list as many words that start with F, A or S in one minute. Another minute was devoted to coming up with curse words that start with those three letters. The study found those who came up with the most F, A and S words also produced the most swear words.
That's a sign of intelligence "to the degree that language is correlated with intelligence," said Jay, who authored the study. Swearing can also be associated with social intelligence, Jay added. That's a pretty sophisticated social tool. Swearing may be a sign of honesty. Science has also found a positive link between profanity and honesty. People who cursed lied less on an interpersonal level, and had higher levels of integrity overall, a series of three studies published in found.
While a higher rate of profanity use was associated with more honesty, the study authors cautioned that "the findings should not be interpreted to mean that the more a person uses profanity, the less likely he or she would engage in more serious unethical or immoral behaviors.
Profanity improves pain tolerance. Want to push through that workout? Go ahead and drop an F-bomb. People on bikes who swore while pedaling against resistance had more power and strength than people who used "neutral" words, studies have shown. Research also found that people who cursed while squeezing a hand vice were able to squeeze harder and longer. People who cursed as they plunged their hand into icy water, another study found, felt less pain and were able to keep their hands in the water longer than those who said a neutral word.
The big question may not be the outcome but rather the scope of the forthcoming opinion in Iancu v. Respondent does not explain how the federal government, States, or localities could continue to keep such forums free of sexually explicit and other vulgar material, if such efforts were deemed viewpoint-discriminatory. The FCC was given an opportunity to come up with new rules, and Ajit Pai at the time expressed a desire for the FCC to make its policy clear and expeditiously process a huge backlog in indecency complaints.
Without strong regulatory action on the indecency front, broadcasters may not have injury to pursue a lawsuit. Nevertheless, the coming decision in Iancu v.
Brunetti will surely be reviewed thoroughly and could provide armor against any future challenge to dirty words on television. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission. It got me thinking about cursing.
There were multiple acts of self-censorship by late-night hosts this week. Lord knows you can say any fucking thing on there. If the presidents were as thick-skinned as the friars, this is what the WHCD would look like. The clips juxtapose Bee in full period dress with her foul mouth. Not professionally, at least. The swearing is strategic. Psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker posits that there are five kinds of swearing:. Peers who have copulated. On her show, Bee deploys a lot of emphatic swearing.
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