For example when you stub your toe or get a paper cut you often make a sound like ‘ouch’ or ‘tssssss’. Or if you are stabbed you would shout loudly. Is this ingrained in us or is it something we’ve developed over time?
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A child who is not bonded will not respond to pain in the same way or cry. Animals will try to hide pain to remain hidden.
Evolution.
Mammals from groups who yelled louder when hurt would warn their friends about a potential attacker who could help or run, both better than standing around doing nothing. The yelling also triggers a fear response so we are programed to be alert of potential threats.
It’s something nearly every mammal shares with us, if you notice all the mammals that have similar responses are all pack-oriented. It’s ingrained reactions meant to tell the larger group either “Help me” ie: ‘ow’ ‘tsss’ etc. Or “Run!” ie: ‘AHHH!’ ‘FUHHH’ ‘OOO.’ It’s all dependent on the level of pain, we give an equal level of severity of an alarm. It also for some reason alleviates pain as well.
Source: https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900%2815%2900032-2/abstract
In simple meaning, it does gives pain and we need to yell to lessen it even if it’s not, on the other one is to get help if the injury we’re severe and needed an immediate assistance.
As always, great answers..
The answer is.. we don’t always, but it’s evolution and environment.
Say I dress up like a bear and claw you, isn’t your first response going to be to yell and scream at the bear to scare it away, even if you think it won’t work?
Screaming is a fundamental instinct in humans. As children it means “something is hurting me and I don’t like it, come save me”. Later, its “get away from me you monster” or “someone come help”.
Since it’s so fundamental, EVERYONE screams, until they don’t. That is, environment. Take the example of 2 30 year old men, one has never fallen or been hurt, and one who was beaten regularly as a child. If they both break the same arm, the one with the smaller scope is likely to react instinctively and scream and cry. The one who has experienced a great deal of pain has a larger scope and will be able to experience pain or alarm without responding instinctively and screaming.
This is very evident when you compare men and women. Women have higher pain tolerance, but men are chided for responding to pain instinctively, so most men eventually learn not to scream as a reaction.
In fact.. the effect is so natural that when you scream, your brain actually releases hormones that dial down the pain a little, on top of the distraction of venting. That’s why yelling and cursing helps when in theory it shouldn’t.
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