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Obscene Language and Evaluative Response: An Empirical Study

Psychological ReportsPublished 1 April 1973
E. Scott Baudhuin
Citations44
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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.

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