*$%#@! Cursing Can Soothe Pain, Research Shows

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 9:01am

The next time you let a string of expletives rip in front of a disapproving audience, try this excuse: Swearing, it seems, is actually a powerful painkiller.The finding, as the Los Angeles Times points out, isn't exactly new; researchers from Keele University in England first wrote about it in the journal NeuroReport in 2009.

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