The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television: Increases in the Use of Swear Words in American Books, 1950-2008

Evidence is accumulating that American culture has become more individualistic since the 1950s. In the present research, we focused on one plausible manifestation of individualism, the use of swear words in cultural products. We examined trends in the use of the seven words identified by George Carl...

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Main Authors: Jean M. Twenge, Hannah VanLandingham, W. Keith Campbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-08-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244017723689