Bunker Bonus – Swearing by It: Why We #?#!ing Love to Curse

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Plenty of us enjoy blasting out a few swear words – but what makes it feel so good? Richard Stephens, a senior lecturer in psychology at Keele University and author of Black Sheep: The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad, tells Jacob Jarvis how swearing can stop pain, make us stronger and help us form closer friendships. “Swearing does appear to make you stronger.” “People are more disinhibited after swearing.” “Swearing can be a social bonding tool.” “You can enjoy a well placed swear word, can’t you? You can think, ‘That was skillful.’” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
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1:15.2	conducted for the British Board of Film Classification last year. Six in ten people said
1:19.0	strong language was part of their day lives and a third of those are so they saw a
1:22.0	shitload more than they did five years ago.
1:24.4	But why do we enjoy it so much?
1:26.0	Here to discuss what the fuck is going on is Richard Stevens, a senior lecturer in psychology
1:30.3	at Kil University and author of Black Sheep, the hidden benefits of being bad.
1:34.3	Welcome to the bunker, Richard.
1:35.8	Hi Jacob, thanks for having me.
1:37.3	Richard, when did you start to think about the benefits of swearing?
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