Richard Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3771186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5851-8975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Don't hold back”
Swearing, often dismissed as socially inappropriate, has been linked to increased physical performance. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. One proposed explanation is state disinhibition, a psychological state in which individuals are less likely to restrain their behavior. This study tested whether swearing enhances physical performance and whether that effect was mediated by psychological variables linked to state disinhibition.…
The power of swearing
Swearing produces effects that are not observed with other forms of language use. Thus, swearing is powerful. It generates a range of distinctive outcomes: physiological, cognitive, emotional, pain-relieving, interactional and rhetorical. However, we know that the power of swearing is not intrinsic to the words themselves. Hence, our starting question is: How does swearing get its power? In this Overview Paper, our aim is threefold. (1) We presen…
Does Emotional Arousal Influence Swearing Fluency
This study assessed the effect of experimentally manipulated emotional arousal on swearing fluency. We hypothesised that swear word generation would be increased with raised emotional arousal. The emotional arousal of 60 participants was manipulated by having them play a first-person shooter video game or, as a control, a golf video game, in a randomised order. A behavioural measure of swearing fluency based on the Controlled Oral Word Associatio…
The relationship between membership of a university sports group and drinking behaviour among students at English Universities
Aims \nThe primary aim is to report on whether or not students who are members of UK university sport groups drink more heavily and/or are more at risk for alcohol-related harm than students not engaged in university sport. A secondary aim is to compare alcohol consumption levels and alcohol-related problems in UK university athletes involved in firstly sports broadly differentiated as team or individual and secondly competing at different levels…
Effect of Manipulated State Aggression on Pain Tolerance
Swearing produces a pain lessening (hypoalgesic) effect for many people; an emotional response may be the underlying mechanism. In this paper, the role of manipulated state aggression on pain tolerance and pain perception is assessed. In a repeated-measures design, pain outcomes were assessed in participants asked to play for 10 minutes a first-person shooter video game vs a golf video game. Sex differences were explored. After playing the first-…
Subjective Ratings of Prospective Memory Deficits in Chronic Alcohol Users
Previous research showing everyday memory is impaired by heavy alcohol use may have underestimated the cognitive impairment of heavy users because drinkers consuming over the recommended limits for safe drinking have often been treated as a homogeneous group, often with a low threshold for inclusion. The current study investigated whether the reported linear relationship applies to participants consuming alcohol significantly above recommended li…
Role of glucose in chewing gum-related facilitation of cognitive function
How does chewing gum affect cognitive function? Reply to
Role of glucose in chewing gum-related facilitation of cognitive function
Practice and Policy of Measuring Quality of Life and Health Economics in Cancer Clinical Trials
Randomized trials with quality of life endpoints
Epilogue
From the Health Administration Program, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. †From the Department of Sociology, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Address for correspondence: Farrokh Alemi, PhD, Health Administration Program, 2121 Euclid, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115
Approaches to the analysis of quality of life data
Red Tape--- White Tape
Role of glucose in chewing gum-related facilitation of cognitive function
The power of swearing
Swearing produces effects that are not observed with other forms of language use. Thus, swearing is powerful. It generates a range of distinctive outcomes: physiological, cognitive, emotional, pain-relieving, interactional and rhetorical. However, we know that the power of swearing is not intrinsic to the words themselves. Hence, our starting question is: How does swearing get its power? In this Overview Paper, our aim is threefold. (1) We presen…
How does chewing gum affect cognitive function? Reply to
Does Emotional Arousal Influence Swearing Fluency
This study assessed the effect of experimentally manipulated emotional arousal on swearing fluency. We hypothesised that swear word generation would be increased with raised emotional arousal. The emotional arousal of 60 participants was manipulated by having them play a first-person shooter video game or, as a control, a golf video game, in a randomised order. A behavioural measure of swearing fluency based on the Controlled Oral Word Associatio…
Red Tape--- White Tape
Approaches to the analysis of quality of life data
Epilogue
From the Health Administration Program, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. †From the Department of Sociology, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Address for correspondence: Farrokh Alemi, PhD, Health Administration Program, 2121 Euclid, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115
Randomized trials with quality of life endpoints
Practice and Policy of Measuring Quality of Life and Health Economics in Cancer Clinical Trials
How does chewing gum affect cognitive function? Reply to
Role of glucose in chewing gum-related facilitation of cognitive function
Role of glucose in chewing gum-related facilitation of cognitive function
Subjective Ratings of Prospective Memory Deficits in Chronic Alcohol Users
Previous research showing everyday memory is impaired by heavy alcohol use may have underestimated the cognitive impairment of heavy users because drinkers consuming over the recommended limits for safe drinking have often been treated as a homogeneous group, often with a low threshold for inclusion. The current study investigated whether the reported linear relationship applies to participants consuming alcohol significantly above recommended li…
The relationship between membership of a university sports group and drinking behaviour among students at English Universities
Aims \nThe primary aim is to report on whether or not students who are members of UK university sport groups drink more heavily and/or are more at risk for alcohol-related harm than students not engaged in university sport. A secondary aim is to compare alcohol consumption levels and alcohol-related problems in UK university athletes involved in firstly sports broadly differentiated as team or individual and secondly competing at different levels…
Effect of Manipulated State Aggression on Pain Tolerance
Swearing produces a pain lessening (hypoalgesic) effect for many people; an emotional response may be the underlying mechanism. In this paper, the role of manipulated state aggression on pain tolerance and pain perception is assessed. In a repeated-measures design, pain outcomes were assessed in participants asked to play for 10 minutes a first-person shooter video game vs a golf video game. Sex differences were explored. After playing the first-…
Does Emotional Arousal Influence Swearing Fluency
This study assessed the effect of experimentally manipulated emotional arousal on swearing fluency. We hypothesised that swear word generation would be increased with raised emotional arousal. The emotional arousal of 60 participants was manipulated by having them play a first-person shooter video game or, as a control, a golf video game, in a randomised order. A behavioural measure of swearing fluency based on the Controlled Oral Word Associatio…
The power of swearing
Swearing produces effects that are not observed with other forms of language use. Thus, swearing is powerful. It generates a range of distinctive outcomes: physiological, cognitive, emotional, pain-relieving, interactional and rhetorical. However, we know that the power of swearing is not intrinsic to the words themselves. Hence, our starting question is: How does swearing get its power? In this Overview Paper, our aim is threefold. (1) We presen…
Don't hold back”
Swearing, often dismissed as socially inappropriate, has been linked to increased physical performance. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. One proposed explanation is state disinhibition, a psychological state in which individuals are less likely to restrain their behavior. This study tested whether swearing enhances physical performance and whether that effect was mediated by psychological variables linked to state disinhibition.…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (4 works) · Chewing gum (3 works)