Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans believe public behavior in the U.S. has taken a turn for the worse.

U.K. researchers Olly Robertson and Richard Stephens have done several studies over the past few years that have found that swearing when a person gets injured can help them increase their pain ...

Swearing seems to serve as a sort of pressure relief valve, lowering pain perception and enabling people to withstand ...

But although swearing is a near-universal feature of language, it is still considered taboo by many. Olly Robertson is not one of them. “It’s something that we all share, and it is really magical.