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Was the control group silence or yelling non-profanities? Because saying/yelling "ow" tends to be fairly effective.
This paper compared repeating a profanity to repeating an alternate arbitrary word, not "ow." (first hit searching "swearing pain" on google scholar)
I don't remember anything else about the thing I read.