Study Claims Profanity Causes Aggression
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Bet they never saw this coming eh.
Bet they never saw this coming eh.
A study at Chicken Before the Egg university claims that aggression causes profanity.
Also I heard that people who swear have a 30% higher pain tolerance than people who don't.
If we combine these two studies that means that people who start the fight by cussing the other person out have a much higher chance of winning the fight. ************.
Also I heard that people who swear have a 30% higher pain tolerance than people who don't.
If we combine these two studies that means that people who start the fight by cussing the other person out have a much higher chance of winning the fight. ************.
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I hate to be dismissive, but....It's BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY. I'll be horribly disheartened if I even have to explain what's wrong here.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure swearing is the best pressure release valve I have, and therefore is probably responsible for my normal lack of aggression.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here.Andy Chalk said:
I hate to be dismissive, but....It's BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY. I'll be horribly disheartened if I even have to explain what's wrong here.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure swearing is the best pressure release valve I have, and therefore is probably responsible for my normal lack of aggression.
Hey now, we don't need that kind of language on this site!JediMB said:
Again I really have to wonder what we are paying these people for?The Rogue Wolf said:
Another one of these studies.
Well, I swear a lot, especially when gaming and it doesn't go well or I can't get past a certain point etc. But I've yet to become a violent person, the same goes for most of my friends. We all swear and no one is particularly violent. So I don't really know how she got to that conclusion.
Also, swear words are only considered to be "naughty" because we decided them to be naughty. If I use the word "shit" instead of "excrement", how can that magically make me more violent? Like I said, it's only naughty to say it because we say it's naughty. What if "shit" suddenly is a real polite word, will it also suddenly stop making me more violent? I'm sorry but that logic just doesn't make sense to me.
Well, I swear a lot, especially when gaming and it doesn't go well or I can't get past a certain point etc. But I've yet to become a violent person, the same goes for most of my friends. We all swear and no one is particularly violent. So I don't really know how she got to that conclusion.
Also, swear words are only considered to be "naughty" because we decided them to be naughty. If I use the word "shit" instead of "excrement", how can that magically make me more violent? Like I said, it's only naughty to say it because we say it's naughty. What if "shit" suddenly is a real polite word, will it also suddenly stop making me more violent? I'm sorry but that logic just doesn't make sense to me.
Huh, that's funny. Last time I read about a study like this is had the opposite conclusion; that people who use profanity often hold less stress and show less violent behaviour.
Of course, correlation does not imply causation. I don't take anything like this seriously. I know plenty of people that talk big but when it comes to actual aggression they shy away, and vice versa. And what was all that "non-physical aggressive behavior like gossiping and spreading rumors about someone". Let me remind everyone that this is a study on a group of 223 young teenagers. Sounds like they're being overly broad with their definition of "aggression" in order to get the results they want.
Of course, correlation does not imply causation. I don't take anything like this seriously. I know plenty of people that talk big but when it comes to actual aggression they shy away, and vice versa. And what was all that "non-physical aggressive behavior like gossiping and spreading rumors about someone". Let me remind everyone that this is a study on a group of 223 young teenagers. Sounds like they're being overly broad with their definition of "aggression" in order to get the results they want.
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Maybe whatever makes someone more prone to gossiping and being aggressive makes them more likely to use profanity rather than the other way around. That seems far more likely to me. I highly doubt being exposed to "naughty words" alone could shape a person's personality so much as simply those people who are naturally more aggressive simply like to use profanity to express themselves aggressively.
Psychology "reports" constantly baffle me as it seems to me people are perceiving them in the way they want to, or are biased to see it take way from personal beliefs. I see nothing conclusive about the words because they could easily be swapped in for each other and make just as much sense.
And that my good fellows is why we need peer reviews and good solid data that illustrates cold hard facts that prove or disprove something no matter how you want to look at it.
Psychology "reports" constantly baffle me as it seems to me people are perceiving them in the way they want to, or are biased to see it take way from personal beliefs. I see nothing conclusive about the words because they could easily be swapped in for each other and make just as much sense.
And that my good fellows is why we need peer reviews and good solid data that illustrates cold hard facts that prove or disprove something no matter how you want to look at it.
Well... that's why we have a rating system, you know, so that our poor yungsters don't play grown ups games?.
I hear profanity all the time, like any 14 year old child. I'm not a violent kid. I've gotten into one fight at school in my life and he had it coming. I took my shoes off in the park for a moment, because I hurt my foot playing baseball. (If you're wondering it was an end of year field trip.) He took my shoes, which were brand new and cost $100. And what did he do? He put them on the edge of a trash can. I tried to climb the fence, and every time he pulled me down. Eventually, I had enough and punched him in the face, breaking his glasses. Other than that though, I'm not a violent kid.
This just in! Somewhere, people are making hilarious wild assumptions! Did it never occure to you that violent kids are more likely to swear? Rather then the other way around? because violent people tend to have behavior which is far less socially acceptable then a few bad words, and therefor don't really care if they insult granny smith?
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Let's say this is true - 100%.
Tourette's sufferers with coprolalia would be sociopaths.
And as far as I'm aware, two people who don't swear very much are Chris Eubanks and Frank Bruno.
(Americans: Think Hulk Hogan/The Undertaker)
Now they're quite violent without swearing at all.
Mick Foley...
rarely swears.
Tourette's sufferers with coprolalia would be sociopaths.
And as far as I'm aware, two people who don't swear very much are Chris Eubanks and Frank Bruno.
(Americans: Think Hulk Hogan/The Undertaker)
Now they're quite violent without swearing at all.
Mick Foley...
rarely swears.