--- ---  # Hell Yes! Swearing Is Good For You, Study Says by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 12, 2014 4:00 PM UTC  Frustrated mid adult man screaming at the wall Frustrated mid adult man screaming at the wallGetty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 12, 2014 4:00 PM UTC Great news for all you pottymouths: a team of researchers have found that swearing is actually good for you. @!%# yes! Psychologists at England’s Keele University say cursing is a harmless, creative emotional release that can make you feel stronger, the _Daily Mail_ [reports](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2625581/Swearing-emotional-creative-language-say-researchers-claim-GOOD-you.html). Basically, they argue that profanity is often used as a coping mechanism and can help us feel more resilient. Participants of the study were asked to play aggressive video games. After their sessions, they could recall a wider variety of curse words. “The video games made people feel more aggressive so their language became more emotional and they swore,” senior lecturer Dr. Richard Stephens told the _Daily Mail_. “We want to use more taboo words when we are emotional. We grow up learning what these words are and using these words while we are emotional can help us to feel stronger.” Okay, so this might not be the _most_ credible or logical study, but we’re going to go ahead and believe that people who swear are creative, beautiful, emotionally intelligent geniuses. New Study Says Swearing Is An Emotional Release That's Good For You ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/96084/swearing-is-good-for-you/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/96084/swearing-is-good-for-you/"},"headline":"Hell Yes! Swearing Is Good For You, Study Says","datePublished":"2014-05-12T16:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:36.162Z","description":"Apparently it's just \"a harmless emotional release\"","url":"https://time.com/96084/swearing-is-good-for-you/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","Psychology","Studies","language"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b0bb8baca0bf640/69868ee7f983e73b8c04dc21/485205133.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b0bb8baca0bf640/69868ee7f983e73b8c04dc21/485205133.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"485205133","caption":"485205133","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/96084/swearing-is-good-for-you/","name":"Hell Yes! Swearing Is Good For You, Study Says"}}]}] ```