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February 21, 2024Open Access

Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study

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SSSimone SulpizioUniversity of Milano-Bicocca

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Implication

Multi-lab study reveals universal emotional profiles of taboo words across 17 countries, highlighting community-specific sociocultural variation.

Key Points

  • Taboo words consistently exhibit extremely low valence, elevated arousal, and low written frequency across all examined linguistic communities.
  • Cross-linguistic assessments across 13 languages and 17 countries evaluated semantic characterization and tabooness using cohorts of 1,046 and 455 participants.
  • Substantial cross-country variability in offensiveness highlights that community-specific sociocultural knowledge remains essential when modeling taboo language.

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Simone Sulpizio (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e7845cb6db6435876f7205https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r3wzq
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