A recent study shows that the use of foul language can actually help relieve stress and pain.

Rsearchers from Keele University in the UK condcuted an experiment on student volunteers. The team asked the students to submerge their arms into a bucket filled with icy water while repeatedly saying curse words. They repeated the experiment, but this time, the students were asked to utter “harmless” words.

Results show that the volunteers were able to keep their arms inside the buckets longer when they were swearing.

The scientists believe that an increase in tolerance to pain happens when people curse.

Psychologist Richard Stephens and his research team wrote, “People withstood a moderately to strongly painful stimulus for significantly longer if they repeated a swear word rather than a nonswear word.”

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