Obscene swearing reduces pain

Cursing, of course, is not good. But anyone noticed a strange phenomenon: when a brick fell on his leg, and you at the same time firmly swore, the pain seemed to recede. As established at the University of British experts Kiely, obscene language may indeed help to carry a lot of pain.

It showed the following experience. The volunteers were divided into two groups and asked to omit forty minutes hands into ice water. Half of the subjects were allowed to swear, and the other was instructed to utter one of the innocuous phrases. Simultaneously, the activity was measured centers of the brain and other reaction volunteers inherent body.

In the end it turned out that the foul-mouthed able to tolerate a low temperature for 45 seconds longer than the set time, and do not use swear words - a mere 10 seconds.

- The use of obscene words, promotes the production of the body's happy hormones - endorphins, which act on the body as a painkiller, - summed up the results of the experiment Dr. Richard Stevens.

According to experts, swearing is used by people for a long time and it is a universal linguistic phenomenon. It activates areas of the brain associated with emotions in the right hemisphere, while the bulk of linguistic information is processed in the left hemisphere.

Source: www.kp.ru

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