Curse Word Psychology

Despite that students now use profanity in their public schools and even more out of school, this could cause more children and teens to use the offensive language around their peers.

Upon analyzing Fahrenheit 451, the novel's informal utilization of profanity could instruct students to communicate in an unprincipled method in the social world. In 1987, Dr. Kassinove, a psychologist, uncovered "that profanity led to decreased delayed compliance and to lower perceptions of trustworthiness" (Kurklen). This rigorous study is plainly expressing that utilizing a profane method of communication in society could lead to a privation

Several studies took place in many different Western nations. Benjamin Bergen wanted more insight on profanity, and what it does to us as humans. Surveying many people helped him get information, and provided him with the insight he wanted. He was able to put Profanity into four categories. Praying, Fornacating, excreting, and slurring.

Profane language is used very often in books. A majority of people believe the use of profanity in books is acceptable. However, when these books are exposed to high school students, many parents complain about it. Parents complain about these type of books because they do not want their children to learn negative words and get influenced by these devastating words. These words promotes negativity within students and sometimes it could lead to violence.

Profanity is a subject that many of us find ourselves not only intimidated by, but also unable to define. Is it simply a particular group of words that should not be uttered in polite company, or is it drastically more complicated? During the last 60 years, the American populace has found themselves spinning into what many consider to be a downward spiral with the issue of morality. In the following pages I am going to discuss what I consider to be the definition of profanity, by giving an overview of the now infamous “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” monologue performed, and written by George Carlin. I will also discuss some of Lenny Bruce’s ideology, and the legal, and public persecution both groundbreaking,

Besides literal uses for cuss words (as verbs), over two-thirds of all swearing is linked in expressing some kind of emotional connotation. These help with expressing the speaker’s anger, frustration, and surprise (“son of a bitch”, “f*ck me!”, “holy shit!”) which are done in emotional outbursts of these single words, also known as epithets. In addition profanity has a direct connection with emotional response in that when one utters one of these “worser words” it helps increase heart rate and work as an analgesic, showing how it can help manage emotional pain as it has a direct connection. One such emotional connection could be noted in the use of “FUBAR” (F*ucked up beyond all recognition) in the movie Saving Private Ryan to help the convey the soldiers emotions in how sick of they were of the war. Commonly physical fights take place to help express emotional pain or anger, these are normally avoided by voicing this anger through these taboo words. For example one can use name calling (bitch, asshole), or curse in the form of a put down (eat shit and die) all spur emotional responses and can help avoid physical confrontations by giving a voice to inner feelings. This is commonly seen in rap songs where many cuss words are used to unveil inner feelings. Such the rap group NWA used

The book also encounters the words: sonuvaitch, bastard, crap, god damn, Jesus, Christ-sake, and more. The F-word is also mentioned six times in the book. Many people wonder that since the average adolescent uses roughly 80 to 90 swear words a day, why should it matter that they read about them? The point for books to be banned by their use of profanity is that reading bad words does have an influence on the reader especially at an age were they are very impressionable. Since many eighth grade students are not allowed to use these curse words in school or at home why should they be read them in school? If these children read these words in school they may feel compelled to repeat them in school or other places were they are not appropriate to use. Therefore reading a book with curse words may cause the frequency of student swearing to increase.

In today’s society curse words and insults are used in many people’s regular vocabulary. Most of these insults, if not all, are being said without prior knowledge of the meaning behind the word. An example of an insult like this is porch monkey, a derogatory term for African Americans. The people that use derogatory terms like this are often ill-informed and unaccepting of other cultures.

During the time in which we could own another human being as an object to do work we would use words that were only used to control others and bring them down. Racial slurs were used to control a person, to make them feel as if they were nothing and make sure they felt like nothing. In the book "When Race Breaks Out" even Helen Fox says , “Ethnic slurs by the dominant group are meant to keep a subordinate group in place.” showing that when any type of discriminating words should be left in the past.

    Everyday we read and hear profanity from books which we should shelter our children from having to learn more about the awful things we have in life. Having profanity in our everyday lives affects us in a negative way because if our children hear the foul language then there is a greater chance that children will pick up the words we would not like them to say. In the article “Potty-Mouthed” by Martin Chilton, states that swearing in Young Adult fiction is a controversial and complex issue. Young Adult fiction is controversial issue because some parent let their children read books that other parents would not agree with based on the language, violence, suicied and sexualactivity. A lot of teenage books have very mature points of view that some or most of our teens can not even

It connects to banned books due to excessive use of vulgar language being one of, if not the leading reason books are banned. In conclusion, profanity is a very challenged topic in world of

In the world we live in today even mouthing the word “nigger” can silence a room. Why is that? Why does a word that has changed its definition drastically over hundreds of years still have people reluctant to use or acknowledge it? Many would debate its derogatory demeanor, its context , and its user to judge its use to be socially acceptable or morally disgusting. When can this slur be used? When is it acceptable and when is it out of line?

In order to test pain tolerance the researchers decided that the participants would dip their hands into ice cold water. Coming up with a way to generate pain without causing mental or physical impairment had to be difficult. They definitely couldn’t have used fire so, their decision to use water was a good yet smart one. My only concern is that the level of pain might impact the pain lessening or hypoalgesic effect. This study only showcases one level of pain. In order for the researchers to find out how often there participants cursed, the participants had to write it down. The problem with this is who really knows the exact number of times they swear within a day, and who’s to say your definition of a curse word replicates

Although it seems that these words are generally ok to throw around, they have had a horrible effect on our society. They are not only portraying us as angry profane people, but they are also degrading our society’s standards. Many can agree that the relationship between a man and a woman is one of partnership and teamwork. Swear words, however, have been reducing women to sex toys and baby machines. Are they not people as well? Why would you ever refer to a woman as a female dog? This only says that you consider her as a pet, and a dumb animal. It astounds me how the human race is constantly looking to find divisions among themselves with which to argue and offend. Can we ever just get

Why is crude language used in television? Some people think that the crude language used in television serves no purpose and shows that a program was made by a bunch of idiots, intellectually, who cannot think of anything intelligent to say. On the other side of the spectrum, people could argue that vulgar language in movies or television serves as a way to make fun or to interpret stupidity in our society. In the comedic movie South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, the main characters, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny sneak into an R-rated animated musical called Terrance and Phillip ‘Asses of Fire’, which uses a high volume of crude language. This movie was so terrible that everybody in the movie theatre left, while the only people that stayed through the whole film were Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny. After the movie, the boys were using all the crude language that they had learned from the movie Terrance and Phillip. The creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, use crude language throughout their episodes to represent the social issues in America. The creators use the crude language to cause attention, to practice their freedom of speech in America, and to rebel against censorship in television which contributes to the success of this program. South Park discusses issues prevalent in today’s society and encourages people to practice their freedom of speech, which is why this program should be watched by more people.