Obscene Language and Evaluative Response: An Empirical Study
- 1 April 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 32 (2) , 399-402
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1973.32.2.399
Abstract
126 Ss' responses to obscene language from the evaluative dimension of meaning were investigated. Results indicated that Ss respond most favorably to religious profanities and that sexual words generally received the most negative evaluative response of those words surveyed.Keywords
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