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Recalling Taboo and Nontaboo Words

American Journal of Psychology, 2008
Abstract People remember emotional and taboo words better than neutral words. It is well known that words that are processed at a deep (i.e., semantic) level are recalled better than words processed at a shallow (i.e., purely visual) level.
Timothy Jay   +1 more
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The A(ffective) B(ehavioral) C(ognitive) of Taboo Words in Natural Language: The Relationship Between Taboo Words’ Intensity and Frequency

open access: yesJournal of Language and Social Psychology, 2017
We investigated the relationship between the affective component (A: the level of offensiveness/intensity) and the behavioral component (B: the frequency of usage) of taboo words that are part of an individual’s natural language (C: the cognitive ...
Patricia Rosenberg   +2 more
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“Taboo Word” Norms

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977
A procedure for constructing taboo-word norms for a college population is described. The results of a pilot study of perceptual defense, employing these norms with 30 students, are also reported. There was no correlation between word frequency and perceptual defense.
Michael Sandwith, James D. Evans
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Swear Words as Taboo Words and Political Correctness

open access: yesThe Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 2019
Swearing is a verbal abuse of a curse and a verbally and mentally homicidal act. These days, however, the concept of swearing prevails in various contexts, as with the saying "Any word that causes discrimination and hatred to the listeners is a ...
민현식
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Taboo words and language

2018
Taboo refers to a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable time in specifiable contexts. For behaviour to be proscribed it must be perceived as in some way harmful to an individual or their community but the degree of harm can fall anywhere on a scale from a breach of etiquette to out-and-out ...
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Extraversion and Pupillary Response to Affective and Taboo Words

Psychophysiology, 1975
ABSTRACTThe association of pupillary constriction with negative valence stimulation was explored within the context of Eysenck's theory of extraversion. Three groups of 11 introverts, ambiverts, and extraverts observed the auditory presentation of 12 affective. 12 taboo, and 24 matched neutral words.
R M, Stelmack, N, Mandelzys
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Reactions of Religious Fundamentalists to Taboo Images and Words

Psychological Reports, 2013
Some view religious fundamentalism as inclusive of fear of the world as a dangerous place. Fundamentalists are known to have extensive taboo lists, but research concerning their reactions to taboo stimuli is sparse. If fear is a basic component of fundamentalism, then reactions to taboo stimuli should be somewhat similar to common fear reactions ...
Bates, Larry W.   +3 more
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Taboo words in print

English Today, 1996
A review of Jess Sheidlower's ‘The F-Word’ and Reinhold Aman's ‘Maledicta XI’, together with a chronology of the lexicography of ...
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