Swearing can vent your feelings more happily and express your inner negative energy freely. In the process of civilization, it seems that only those who are restrained and elegant can be trusted, and
Swearing can vent your feelings more happily and express your inner negative energy freely. In the process of civilization, it seems that only those who are restrained and elegant can be trusted, and human instincts are suppressed layer by layer, including the aggressive instinct emphasized by Freud. Understanding it from this perspective, we can easily understand that swearing is satisfying those repressed desires to attack. The more depressed you are, the more you need immediate relief. Among the ways we can vent, swearing is undoubtedly the easiest, fastest and most direct option. As American psychologist Reinhold? Aman describes the venting mechanism of swearing this way: "People become excited once they are angry. Swearing and insulting gestures can relieve people's excitement." Talking will reduce people's aggressiveness. Swearers use swear words as weapons. The person being scolded will become discouraged through verbal threats and physically attack. This not only achieves the goal, but also avoids harming the person's body. Scientific experiments show that swearing can relieve pain. Scientific experiments show that swearing can relieve pain. The scientist found a student to serve as a volunteer. He asked these volunteers to soak their hands in cold water at 5°C and told them to hold on as long as they could. This temperature is quite low, and human hands will feel strong pain in it, but no real harm will be caused in a short period of time. During the test, the researchers first asked the subjects to repeat swear words - they could say whatever they wanted to say; then, they were asked to repeat some neutral words, such as "smooth" and "hard" to describe the table. words. Researchers found that when participants repeated swear words, they were able to hold their hands in the ice water longer. Experimental data show that when swearing, men can soak their hands in cold water at 5°C for an average of seconds, while men who only speak language suitable for all ages can only soak their hands for an average of seconds. "MythBusters," an ace column on the Discovery Channel in the United States, reproduced this test in the name of "testing whether swearing makes people more painful." The results showed that on average, the pain time of the five anchors was about 30% longer when swearing was used than when no swearing was used. Why does swearing reduce pain? Scientists believe that this may be related to the sensory response that swearing can induce. Swearing is a universal human language phenomenon that triggers responses in the emotional centers of the brain. Swearing relies on activity a few millimeters below the cortex of the right hemisphere of the brain, and has a lot to do with ancient evolutionary structures buried in the right hemisphere of the brain. This structure includes the amygdala, an almond-shaped nerve that triggers a fight-or-flight response that speeds up the heart and dulls the perception of pain. Pink, a psychologist at Harvard University, has discussed the phenomenon of swearing in detail and compared this behavior to the reaction of a cat at home when he is suddenly crushed by a careless owner: "I suspect that swearing will trigger a kind of defense." Sexual reflex activity is similar to the reflex activity in which an animal bursts out with violent counterattack behavior when being hurt or surrounded, and at the same time makes angry sounds to frighten the attacker."