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ilzolende comments on Open thread, Feb. 23 - Mar. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ilzolende 25 February 2015 12:15:37AM 1 point [-]

Was the control group silence or yelling non-profanities? Because saying/yelling "ow" tends to be fairly effective.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 February 2015 03:05:35AM *  3 points [-]

This paper compared repeating a profanity to repeating an alternate arbitrary word, not "ow." (first hit searching "swearing pain" on google scholar)

Comment author: Alicorn 25 February 2015 02:55:39AM 2 points [-]

I don't remember anything else about the thing I read.