Special guest, psychologist Vaneeta Sandhu, joins the show this week to talk about the psychology of cursing. Why do we do curse (or is it cuss)? Can other animals swear? How does profanity impact us and our teams? Does it shape how people see us? And why does it feel so f@#king good?

Talk (or curse) with us:
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Further Reading:

• Jay & Jay (2013) cursing frequency research.
• Appropriateness of swearing is highly contextual and variable.
• Swearing activates our autonomic nervous system.
• People who sweat more when swearing were more likely to have been punished for swearing as children.
• Persuasion and swearing 
• Building rapport in office settings
• Swearing among Australia’s construction trades builds camaraderie 
• Cold water task
• Swearing and verbal fluency
• Benjamin K. Bergen: What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves (2016)
• Emma Byrne: Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language (2017)
• Cursing chimps research by Fouts & Mills: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees (1997)

Produced by Scarlet Moon Things
Music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings