Does it reduce the pain? Or is it because of the experience of watching people react like that before? Or is it something different from my guesses?
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It is a reflex that cannot be controlled. A startle reflex (from a burn, pain, sound,etc) short circuits through the nervous system bypassing the any decision making in the brain. Verbalization usually is a reaction to the autonomic reaction. That is a personalized reaction once your brain catches up to what happened. It is still not a conscious decision made for that reaction. That follows immediately.
*Hit your finger with a hammer your brain will pull your finger back before the pain registers.
*You yell ouch at the realization it will hurt, but pain hasn’t hit. Ouch is just a generalization of that guttural sound.
*pain hits and you grab your finger and squeeze it as pressure elevates pain (nerves can’t fire pain and pressure signals at the same time). Then your mind is caught up and you probably will swear like a sailor.
If I had to take a guess I would have to say that it’s probably just to allow other people to know that we’re in pain and that there’s possible danger around animals basically do it too whenever they get hurt they make sound of distress or they let out second smells to allow other animals in their species to know that there’s danger but we as humans have evolved to be able to speak so we’ve just developed words to use instead of sound but some people do still just scream whenever they get hurt
I think its experience of people watching and learning its a vicarious reflex…as where you live when someone is hurt he/she says ouch but where i live people use different word by telling that word we signify a message that we are hurt or we are sorry for what happened…i hope you get notion of it even when we get angry or get offended mostly we abuse to situation or person on whom we are angry or offended by…abusing won’t solve the problem but people have associated that abusing would pacify their anger(in selective cases) we have watched and learn this too…sorry if i have made mistakes as English ain’t my first language and also sorry if it seems off-topic.
Do people who speak different languages say different things? In English we say “ah” or “ow”. Is this instinct or learned language?
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