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.

Seeing the dramatic reaction, people nearby panic, assuming the black magic is real. In fear of suffering the same fate, many rush to hand over money to the Baba, hoping to avoid the ‘curse.’ ...