Why we curse

Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, author and psychology professor at the University of Toronto. In this short excerpt of his lecture series “Maps of Meaning” he explains the very evolutionary reason for swearing amongst humans. Head over to Dr. Peterson’s own YouTube channel for his full lectures: This clip is an excerpt of “2017 Maps of Meaning 7: Images of Story & MetaStory”: You may also be interested to know that Jordan B. Peterson’s book “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” is finally available. You can find it here: (US) (UK) (CA) Don’t miss out on his best selling first book “Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief” which much of his lecture material is based on: (US) (UK) (CA) The above are Amazon affiliate links. Please visit http://