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Recalling Taboo and Nontaboo Words

The 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   +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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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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Verbal Transformations of “Stabilized” Taboo and Neutral Words

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1974
To test the “arousal” hypothesis that physiological and/or psychological “arousal” maintains the perception of an auditory stimulus, a number of taboo and neutral words were repeated orally for 14 male and 14 female college students. Neutral words gave rise to more verbal transformation than taboo words.
R S, Calef   +3 more
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Taboo words in teenage talk

Spanish in Context, 2006
This paper reports on a corpus-based comparison of the use of taboo words amongst middle/upper class teenage girls in London and Madrid. Two corpora of spontaneous conversation were used for the comparison; these showed that the most frequent words used by both groups had sexual reference, followed by words to do with bodily functions.
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