Kiel Christianson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Kiel Christianson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois educational psychology professor Kiel Christianson found in a recent study that readers' likelihood of being offended by taboo words and the context in which the words were used accounted for some -- but not all -- of these words' impact on readers' attention and memory.

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