All Stories

  1. Swearing, moral order, and online communication

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, July 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  2. Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives: deconstructing the poverty-of-vocabulary myth

    Article • Language Sciences, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  3. A Child's Garden of Curses: A Gender, Historical, and Age-Related Evaluation of the Taboo Lexicon

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, January 2013, University of Illinois Press

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  4. The Utility and Ubiquity of Taboo Words

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  5. Do offensive words harm people?

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  6. Recalling Taboo and Nontaboo Words

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, April 2008, JSTOR

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  7. The pragmatics of swearing

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  8. Filling the emotion gap in linguistic theory: Commentary on Potts' expressive dimension

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  9. Memories of Punishment for Cursing

    Article • Sex Roles, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  10. Self-Censorship in Course Diaries

    Article • College Teaching, July 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  11. Why We Curse

    Article • December 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  12. Euphemism & dysphemism: Language used as a shield and weapon

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  13. Cursing in America

    Article • January 1992, John Benjamins

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  14. Computers and psychology.

    Article • January 1987, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Timothy B Jay

  15. Ordering of taboo adjectives

    Article • Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, June 1977, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Timothy B Jay