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29: Swearing is Good Medicine
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24 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2018
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In this episode, Matt tries to find out if a study saying that swearing has an "opiate" like effect on pain is valid. He calls in journalist Jeff Harder, doctoral Northwestern student, Jim Kloet and pain psychologist Dr. Samantha Rafie to help him figure it out. Plus, he first gets some help from Helen Zaltzmen of The Allusionist to explain a little more about the brain and pain. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Mar 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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