We'd say, oh, well, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales or whatever. You would never know, for example, that - give you an example I've actually been thinking about. You know, there's no left leg or right leg. How to Foster Perceived Partner Responsiveness: High-Quality LIstening is Key, by Guy Itzchakov, Harry Reis, and Netta Weinstein, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2021. That said, if you hear one or two pieces of music that you really love, feel free to email us at [emailprotected] and well do our best to respond to your request. If you can speak more than one language, does this mean that you're also simultaneously and constantly shifting in your mind between different worldviews? Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? So I just think that it's something we need to check ourselves for. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. Language as it evolved was just talking to an extent that can be very hard for we literate people to imagine. And this is NPR. MCWHORTER: Exactly. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. Opening scene of Lady Bird Flight attendant Steven Slater slides from a plane after quitting Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? We lobby a neighbor to vote for our favored political candidate. It seems kind of elliptical, like, would it be possible that I obtained? But I don't think that it's always clear to us that language has to change in that things are going to come in that we're going to hear as intrusions or as irritating or as mistakes, despite the fact that that's how you get from, say, old Persian to modern Persian. ), The Sourcebook of Listening Research: Methodology and Measures, 2018. It should be thought of as fun. Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. VEDANTAM: (Laughter) All right, I think it might be time for me to confess one of my pet peeves. 4.62. So for example, for English speakers - people who read from left to right - time tends to flow from left to right. Toula and Ian's different backgrounds become apparent on one of their very first dates. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) I'm willing to get involved. What a cynical thing to say, but that doesn't mean that it might not be true. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. You can't smell or taste time. BORODITSKY: The way to say my name properly in Russian is (speaking foreign language), so I don't make people say that. Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. Dictionaries are wonderful things, but they create an illusion that there's such thing as a language that stands still, when really it's the nature of human language to change. VEDANTAM: I understand there's been some work looking at children and that children who speak certain languages are actually quicker to identify gender and their own gender than children who are learning other languages in other cultures. VEDANTAM: I understand that there's also been studies looking at how artists who speak different languages might paint differently depending on how their languages categorize, you know, concepts like a mountain or death. And as odd as that sounds, I can guarantee you if you watch any TV show with women under a certain age or if you just go out on an American street and listen, you'll find that that's a new kind of exclamatory particle. How else would you do it? The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? And if people heard the sounds a little differently and produced them a little differently, if there were new meanings of words - very quickly whatever the original meaning was wouldn't be remembered. Podcasters use the RadioPublic listener relationship platform to build lasting connections with fans. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore how unconscious bias can infect a culture and how a police shooting may say as much about a community as it does about individuals. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. We don't want to be like that. Imagine you meet somebody, they're 39 and you take their picture. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Social Functionalist Frameworks for Judgment and Choice: Intuitive Politicians, Theologians, and Prosecutors, by Philip Tetlock, Psychology Review, 2002. But what I am thinking is, you should realize that even if you don't like it, there's nothing wrong with it in the long run because, for example, Jonathan Swift didn't like it that people were saying kissed instead of kiss-ed (ph) and rebuked instead of rebuk-ed (ph). GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. They can be small differences but important in other ways. edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. If you grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your native tongue without even thinking about it. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. So that's an example of how languages and cultures construct how we use space to organize time, to organize this very abstract thing that's otherwise kind of hard to get our hands on and think about. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. This week, we launch the first of a two-part mini-series on the scie, If you think about the people in your life, it's likely that they share a lot in common with you. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Could this affect the way, you know, sexism, conscious or unconscious, operates in our world? 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And you say that dictionaries in some ways paint an unrealistic portrait of a language. You may also use the Hidden Brain name in invitations sent to a small group of personal contacts for such purposes as a listening club or discussion forum. VEDANTAM: One of the things I found really interesting is that the evolution of words and language is constant. You-uh (ph). We convince a colleague to take a different tactic at work. This week, in the second installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Todd Kashdan looks at the relationship between distress and happiness, and how to keep difficult emotions from sabotaging our wellbeing. Another possibility is that it's a fully integrated mind, and it just incorporates ideas and distinctions from both languages or from many languages if you speak more than two. And you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it out. So for example, English speakers, because they're very likely to say, he did it or someone did it, they are very good at remembering who did it, even if it's an accident. We recommend movies or books to a friend. The Effects of Conflict Types, Dimensions, and Emergent States on Group Outcomes, by Karen Jehn et. In many languages, nouns are gendered. Hidden Brain Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Science 4.6 36K Ratings; Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. So if you took a bunch of those tendencies, you could make up, say, the English of 50 years from now, but some of the things would just be complete chance. You can also connect directly with our sponsorship representative by emailing [emailprotected]. Newsletter: And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. So it's mendokusai. LERA BORODITSKY: The categorization that language provides to you becomes real - becomes psychologically real. VEDANTAM: You make the case that concerns over the misuse of language might actually be one of the last places where people can publicly express prejudice and class differences. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. You couldn't have predicted this I know-uh move-uh (ph). Welcome to HIDDEN BRAIN. And so for example, if the word chair is masculine in your language, why is that? Hidden Brain - Transcripts Hidden Brain - Transcripts Subscribe 435 episodes Share Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. And then if you are going to be that elliptical, why use the casual word get? BORODITSKY: Well, you would be at sea at first. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. These relationships can help you feel cared for and connected. Those sorts things tend to start with women. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? Perceived Partner Responsiveness Minimizes Defensive Reactions to Failure, by Peter A. Caprariello and Harry T. Reis, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2011. It's never happened. Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. Refusing to Apologize can have Psychological Benefits, by Tyler Okimoto, Michael Wenzel and Kyli Hedrick, European Journal of Social Psychology, 2013. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways w, Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. If you're just joining us, I'm talking to John McWhorter. Stay with us. You know, we spend years teaching children about how to use language correctly. All of the likes and, like, literallies (ph) might sometimes grate on your nerves, but John McWhorter says the problem might be with you, not with the way other people speak. That was somehow a dad's fashion, and that I should start wearing flat-fronted pants. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST:This is HIDDEN BRAIN. Please note that your continued use of the RadioPublic services following the posting of such changes will be deemed an acceptance of this update. FDA blocks human trials for Neuralink brain implants. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. As you're going about your day, you likely interact with family, friends and coworkers. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. They are ways of seeing the world. Going the Distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The Vital Role of Identified Motivation, by Kennon M. Sheldon, Motivation Science, 2020. MCWHORTER: Thank you for having me, Shankar. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. And MIT linguist Ken Hale, who's a renowned linguist, said that every time a language dies, it's the equivalent of a bomb being dropped on the Louvre. And if that is true, then the educated person can look down on people who say Billy and me went to the store or who are using literally, quote, unquote, "wrong" and condemn them in the kinds of terms that once were ordinary for condemning black people or women or what have you. out. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). For example, when we started talking about navigation, that's an example where a 5-year-old in a culture that uses words like north, south, east and west can point southeast without hesitation. podcast pages. If the language stayed the way it was, it would be like a pressed flower in a book or, as I say, I think it would be like some inflatable doll rather than a person. VEDANTAM: So this begs the question, if you were to put languages on something of a spectrum, where you have, you know, languages like Spanish or Hindi where nouns are gendered and languages like English where many nouns are not gendered but pronouns are gendered, and on the other end of the spectrum, you have languages like Finnish or Persian where you can have a conversation about someone without actually mentioning their gender, it would seem surprising if this did not translate, at some level, into the way people thought about gender in their daily activities, in terms of thinking about maybe even who can do what in the workplace. BORODITSKY: Yeah. You can support Hidden Brain indirectly by giving to your local NPR station, or you can provide direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page. - so one skull but two different minds, and you shift from one to the other. Thank you! But if they were sitting facing north, they would lay out the story from right to left. This week, a story about a con with a twist. ADAM COLE, BYLINE: (Singing) You put your southwest leg in, and you shake it all about. Physicist Richard Feynman once said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." One way we fool ourselves is by imagining we know more than we do; we think we are experts. I said, you know, this weird thing happened. People do need to be taught what the socially acceptable forms are. So maybe they're saying bridges are beautiful and elegant, not because they're grammatically feminine in the language, but because the bridges they have are, in fact, more beautiful and elegant. How come you aren't exactly the way you were 10 years ago? How does that sound now? But also, I started wondering, is it possible that my friend here was imagining a person without a gender for this whole time that we've been talking about them, right? And if you teach them that forks go with women, they start to think that forks are more feminine. It takes, GEACONE-CRUZ: It's this phrase that describes something between I can't be, bothered or I don't want to do it or I recognize the incredible effort that goes into. You have to do it in order to fit into the culture and to speak the language. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. So some languages don't have number words. VEDANTAM: Around the world, we often hear that many languages are dying, and there are a few megalanguages that are growing and expanding in all kinds of ways. For more on decision-making, check out our episode on how to make wiser choices. But, in fact, they were reflecting this little quirk of grammar, this little quirk of their language and in some cases, you know, carving those quirks of grammar into stone because when you look at statues that we have around - of liberty and justice and things like this - they have gender. Now I can stay oriented. Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams, by Amy Edmondson, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. When the con was exposed, its victims defended the con artists. BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. We can't help, as literate people, thinking that the real language is something that sits still with letters written all nice and pretty on a page that can exist for hundreds of years, but that's not what language has ever been. And it's sad that we're not going to be able to make use of them and learn them and celebrate them. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. For more of our Relationships 2.0 series, check out one of our most popular episodes ever about why marriages are so hard. If you, grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your. If you prefer to listen through a podcast app, here are links to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. That is utterly arbitrary that those little slits in American society look elderly, but for various chance reasons, that's what those slits came to mean, so I started wearing flat-fronted pants. Yes! And it ended up becoming less a direct reflection of hearty laughter than an indication of the kind of almost subconscious laughter that we do in any kind of conversation that's meant as friendly. Something new will have started by then, just like if we listen to people in 1971, they sound odd in that they don't say like as much as we do. So what happens is that once literally comes to feel like it means really, people start using it in figurative constructions such as I was literally dying of thirst. Look at it. Hidden Brain Claim By Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Podcasts RSS Web PODCAST SEARCH EPISODES COMMUNITY PODCASTER EDIT SHARE Listen Score LS 84 Global Rank TOP 0.01% ABOUT THIS PODCAST Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. The categorization that language provides to you becomes real, becomes psychologically real. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. I just don't want to do it. something, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. I decided it was very important for me to learn English because I had always been a very verbal kid, and I'd - was always the person who recited poems in front of the school and, you know, led assemblies and things like that. Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button. And they suggest that differences across languages do, in fact, predict some of these measures of gender equality across countries. And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. That is the direction of writing in Hebrew and Arabic, going from right to left. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). You can run experiments in a lab or survey people on the street. So they've compared gender equality, gender parity norms from the World Health Organization, which ranks countries on how equal access to education, how equal pay is, how equal representation in government is across the genders. So you have speakers of two different languages look at the same event and come away with different memories of what happened because of the structure of their languages and the way they would normally describe them. All sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain are managed by SXM Media. And so language changed just like the clouds in the sky. Not without written permission. We love the idea of Hidden Brain helping to spark discussions in your community. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. You can find all Hidden Brain episodes on our website. VEDANTAM: Languages orient us to the world. Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through. So for example, grammatical gender - because grammatical gender applies to all nouns in your language, that means that language is shaping the way you think about everything that can be named by a noun. Transcript 585: In Defense of Ignorance Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. And that is an example of a simple feature of language - number words - acting as a transformative stepping stone to a whole domain of knowledge. I had this cool experience when I was there. Accuracy and availability may vary. There are many scholars who would say, look, yes, you do see small differences between speakers of different languages, but these differences are not really significant; they're really small. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice. And then when I turned, this little window stayed locked on the landscape, but it turned in my mind's eye. Writing has come along relatively recently. Updated privacy policy: We have made some changes to our Privacy Policy. VEDANTAM: Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) If you're so upset about it, maybe you can think of a way to help her. Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? And, of course, you always have to wonder, well, could it be that speakers of these different languages are actually seeing different kinds of bridges? UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. Assessing the Seeds of Relationship Decay: Using Implicit Evaluations to Detect the Early Stages of Disillusionment, by Soonhee Lee, Ronald D. Rogge, and Harry T. Reis, Psychological Science, 2010. We also look at how. VEDANTAM: I understand that if you're in a picnic with someone from this community and you notice an ant climbing up someone's left leg, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to tell that person, look, there's an ant on your left leg. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way, and you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it. Hidden Brain Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Subscribe Visit website Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our. This is Hidden Brain. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. 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VEDANTAM: Time is another concept that is also central to the way we see and describe the world. And what he noticed was that when people were trying to act like Monday, they would act like a man. Why researchers should think real-world: A conceptual rationale, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life, 2012. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. That hadn't started then. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-being: The Self-Concordance Model, Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? VEDANTAM: If you're bilingual or you're learning a new language, you get what Jennifer, experienced - the joy of discovering a phrase that helps you perfectly encapsulate a. feeling or an experience. So you can't see time. They're more likely to see through this little game that language has played on them. Marcus Butt/Getty Images/Ikon Images Hidden Brain Why Nobody Feels Rich by Shankar Vedantam , Parth Shah , Tara Boyle , Rhaina Cohen September 14, 2020 If you've ever flown in economy class.

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