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Monday, July 13, 2009

Swearing makes pain more tolerable

Television newsrooms rejoice! Everyday employees around the country are making the pain go away:

"Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon," said Richard Stephens of Keele University in England and one of the authors of the new study. "It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain." READ MORE

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