A team of psychology researchers in the UK has found that swearing can actually increase a person’s pain tolerance — and no, you can’t substitute a PG version like, “Oh, fudge.” Only the real thing will do. Host Marco Werman speaks with Olly Robertson, a researcher at the University of Oxford and at the Swear Lab at Keele University in the UK.
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