By Ben Spencer for MailOnline. Crying out when we get hurt is a natural and unstoppable instinct. Now scientists think they have found the reason for our yelps - it helps us withstand the pain. The effort of shouting the word 'ow' interferes with pain messages travelling to the brain, a new study suggests. Scientists believe people shout out when hurt because it interferes with pain signals being sent to the brain picture posed by model.
Biologists have previously suggested we have evolved to spontaneously shout out in order to warn others of danger. But the new research indicates that we may actually do so to distract ourselves from the feeling of pain. People can withstand pain longer when they shout out 'ow' or 'ouch', new research has shown picture posed by model.
The scientists, whose study is published in the Journal of Pain, say that expressions of pain are shared across language barriers. The researchers, from the departments of psychology and neurobiology at the National University of Singapore, wrote: 'Shared among these is a sound during which the mouth simply opens, the tongue lies flat and the lips remain unrounded. The scientists tested for how long volunteers could keep their hands in painfully cold water.
The 56 participants were allowed to shout 'ow' when they felt pain, and then the experiment was repeated four more times with the volunteers asked to stay silent. In one test they could press a button when they felt pain, in another they were played a recording of themselves shouting 'ow', in another the recording was of another person shouting 'ow', and in the fifth they just sat passively until they could no longer withstand the pain.
The results showed that the participants were able to stand the pain for longest when they were allowed to shout out. They managed nearly 30 seconds on average, five seconds more than when they were told to sit and do nothing. Hearing recordings of a yelp did nothing to increase the time they could withstand the pain, suggesting that 'vocalising in pain is not only communicative,' the researchers said.
They wrote: 'We observed higher pain tolerance when participants said "ow" than when they did nothing. We found that a simple vocal act such as saying "ow" helps individuals cope with pain. Exactly how the process works is not clear, but they think the automatic messages travelling to the vocal part of the brain interfere with the pain messages.
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How saying 'ow' can ease your pain by interfering with signals to the brain Crying out while feeling pain interferes with the body's pain signals Shouting 'ow' distracts from the feeling of pain, a new study suggests People can stand pain longer when they say 'ow' or 'ouch', scientists find Previously scientists thought we evolved to shout out to warn of danger By Ben Spencer for MailOnline Published: GMT, 1 February Updated: GMT, 1 February e-mail shares.
Surely, some argue, there must be consequences to stifling those impulses. The idea has roots in a decades-old psychotherapy theory, but from a purely scientific point of view, what screaming does for the brain is still up for debate.
Amazon sells pillows specifically for screaming into. The Lifehack blog will even tell you that primal screaming is scientifically good for you. It was in an oddball branch of midth-century psychotherapy, developed by a man named Arther Janov, that this idea first took root. The technique, which Janov became an aggressive salesman for, became popular enough to attract patients like James Earl Jones and John Lennon. For everyone else, just shout it out! Thought for the Week: I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
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