Person
Richard Stevens
Psychologist — swearing and pain tolerance research
Psychologist whose ice-water experiments found genuine swearing measurably increases pain tolerance, while euphemisms ("minced oaths") and invented swear-sounding words do not — the effect requires an authentic emotional association with the word itself. Referenced, not interviewed, in this episode. See Stevens Swearing Pain-Tolerance Studies.
Discussed in
- Episode 38 — 38- Is swearing good for you