Maledictology
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Maledictology (from lat. maledicere) is a branch of psychology, that does research about cursing and blustering. It is influenced by US-American psychologist Timothy Jay (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts) and the philologist and researcher in swearwords Reinhold Aman (California). They assume that swearing and blustering is part of the human life. According to this, it can even act as a passive self-defense, as it prevents palpable argument.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Maledictology" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
