But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #16: Not figuratively, it's literally MCWHORTER: Yeah. Of course, eventually, the Finnish kids also figured it out because language isn't the only source of that information, otherwise it would be quite surprising for the Finns to be able to continue to reproduce themselves. And so even though I insist that there is no scientific basis for rejecting some new word or some new meaning or some new construction, I certainly have my visceral biases. And you suddenly get a craving for potato chips, and you realize that you have none in the kitchen, and there's nothing else you really want to eat. We don't want to be like that. And you've conducted experiments that explore how different conceptions of time in different languages shape the way we think about the world and shape the way we think about stories. 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This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th BORODITSKY: Well, there may not be a word for left to refer to a left leg. So act like Monday. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. And it's just too much of an effort, and you can't be bothered to do it, even though it's such a small thing. But if you ask bilinguals, who have learned two languages and now they know that some genders disagree across the two languages, they're much less likely to say that it's because chairs are intrinsically masculine. Well never sell your personal information. And there are consequences for how people think about events, what they notice when they see accidents. You know, endings are going to tend to drop off. Toula and Ian's different backgrounds become apparent on one of their very first dates. So the word for the is different for women than for men, and it's also different for forks versus spoons and things like that. They believe that their language reflects the true structure of the world. What Do You Do When Things Go Right? So you may start with moving your southwest leg in, but then you have to move your northeast leg out. VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? You can search for the episode or browse all episodes on our Archive Page. We recommend movies or books to a friend. And I thought, wow, first of all, it would be almost impossible to have a conversation like that in English where you hadn't already revealed the gender of the person because you have to use he or she. VEDANTAM: This episode of HIDDEN BRAIN was produced by Rhaina Cohen, Maggie Penman and Thomas Lu with help from Renee Klahr, Jenny Schmidt, Parth Shah and Chloe Connelly. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. But I think that we should learn not to listen to people using natural language as committing errors because there's no such thing as making a mistake in your language if a critical mass of other people speaking your language are doing the same thing. 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. Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. So to give you a very quick wrap-up is that some effects are big, but even when effects aren't big, they can be interesting or important for other reasons - either because they are very broad or because they apply to things that we think are really important in our culture. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Right. But I understand that in Spanish, this would come out quite differently. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts are Influenced by Self-Esteem and Relationship Threat, by Shannon M. Smith & Harry Reis, Personal Relationships, 2012. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. Additional Resources Book: If you take literally in what we can think of as its earliest meaning, the earliest meaning known to us is by the letter. And nobody wishes that we hadn't developed our modern languages today from the ancient versions. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. So I think it's an incredible tragedy that we're losing all of this linguistic diversity, all of this cultural diversity because it is human heritage. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, by Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, Kevin Ochsner, Psychological Science, 2008. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. But as Bob Cialdini set out to discover the keys to influence and persuasion, he decided to follow the instincts of his childhood. According to neuroscientists who study laughter, it turns out that chuckles and giggles often aren't a response to humorthey're a response to people. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. How to Really Know Another Person - Transcripts You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. In this week's My Unsung Hero, Sarah Feldman thanks someone for their gift more than 20 years ago. So bilinguals are kind of this in-between case where they can't quite turn off their other languages, but they become more prominent, more salient when you are actually speaking the language or surrounded by the language. 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. All rights reserved. You know, we spend years teaching children about how to use language correctly. That's what it's all about. And then if you are going to be that elliptical, why use the casual word get? In The Air We Breathe . The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. MCWHORTER: No, because LOL was an expression; it was a piece of language, and so you knew that its meaning was going to change. But, if you dig a little deeper, you may find that they share much more: they might make the same amount of money as you, or share the, We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. It should be thought of as fun. We'd say, oh, well, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales or whatever. You can run experiments in a lab or survey people on the street. See you next week. And there are all kinds of interesting, useful, eye-opening ideas that exist in all of the world's languages. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. I said, you know, this weird thing happened. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. What techniques did that person use to persuade you? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #6: (Speaking foreign language). But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? Perceived Partner Responsiveness as an Organizing Construct in the Study of Intimacy and Closeness, by Harry T. Reis, et. 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. VEDANTAM: It took just one week of living in Japan for Jennifer to pick up an important, VEDANTAM: There isn't a straightforward translation of this phrase in English. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. VEDANTAM: I asked Lera how describing the word chair or the word bridge as masculine or feminine changes the way that speakers of different languages think about those concepts. 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 are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy | Hidden Brain Media 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. And in fact, speakers of languages like this have been shown to orient extremely well - much better than we used to think humans could. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) I'm willing to get involved. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Shelly. 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. Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. This week, we continue our look at the science of influence with psychologist Robert Cialdini, and explore how these techniques can be used for both good and evil. So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. This is NPR. Imagine this. FDA blocks human trials for Neuralink brain implants. If I give you a bunch of pictures to lay out and say this is telling you some kind of story and you - and they're disorganized, when an English speaker organizes those pictures, they'll organize them from left to right. When we come back, we dig further into the way that gender works in different languages and the pervasive effects that words can play in our lives. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). 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. This week, in the second installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Todd Kashdan looks at the relationship between distress and happiness, and ho, Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. Rightly Crossing the Rubicon: Evaluating Goal Self-Concordance Prior to Selection Helps People Choose More Intrinsic Goals, by Kennon M. Sheldon, Mike Prentice, and Evgeny Osin, Journal of Research in Personality, 2019. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. So - but if I understand correctly, I would be completely at sea if I visited this aboriginal community in Australia because I have often absolutely no idea where I am or where I'm going. in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. So that, again, is a huge difference. And so I was trying to keep track of which way is which. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). As you're going about your day, you likely interact with family, friends and coworkers. 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? Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Shankar Vedantam, host of the popular podcast "Hidden Brain" has been reporting on human behavior for decades. al, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004. Lera said there's still a lot of research to be done on this. But actually, that's exactly how people in those communities come to stay oriented - is that they learn it, (laughter) right? 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. I think that the tone that many people use when they're complaining that somebody says Billy and me went to the store is a little bit incommensurate with the significance of the issue. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. Accuracy and availability may vary. And I kind of sheepishly confessed this to someone there. MCWHORTER: Yes, Shankar, that's exactly it. al (Eds. And, I mean, really, it sounds exactly like that. They often feel angry about it, and you think this anger is actually telling. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. - so one skull but two different minds, and you shift from one to the other. Persuasion: Part 1 - Transcripts And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it. All episodes of Hidden Brain - Chartable Hidden Brain Episodes Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. So for example, for English speakers - people who read from left to right - time tends to flow from left to right. So the question for us has been, how do we build these ideas? So when I ask you to, say, imagine a man walking down the street, well, in your imagery, you're going to have some details completed and some will be left out. And the way you speak right is not by speaking the way that people around you in your life speak, but by speaking the way the language is as it sits there all nice and pretty on that piece of paper where its reality exists. BORODITSKY: My family is Jewish, and we left as refugees. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. Languages are not just tools. When we come back, we dig further into the way that gender works in different languages and the pervasive effects that words can play in our lives. The dictionary says both uses are correct. And then when I turned, this little window stayed locked on the landscape, but it turned in my mind's eye. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. We lobby a neighbor to vote for our favored political candidate. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. You know, lots of people blow off steam about something they think is wrong, but very few people are willing to get involved and do something about it. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. How big are the differences that we're talking about, and how big do you think the implications are for the way we see the world? It's part of a general running indication that everything's OK between you and the other person, just like one's expected to smile a little bit in most interactions. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page, sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain. And what he noticed was that when people were trying to act like Monday, they would act like a man. It's never happened. Of course that's how you BORODITSKY: And so what was remarkable for me was that my brain figured out a really good solution to the problem after a week of trying, right? VEDANTAM: Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. It is the very fabric, the very core of your experience. VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. So when the perfect woman started writing him letters, it seemed too good to be true. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. BORODITSKY: One thing that we've noticed is this idea of time, of course, is very highly constructed by our minds and our brains. It seems kind of elliptical, like, would it be possible that I obtained? The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. 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. You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind | Hidden Brain Media Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. June 20, 2020 This week on Hidden Brain, research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. BORODITSKY: Well, you would be at sea at first. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 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. Language as it evolved was just talking to an extent that can be very hard for we literate people to imagine. But what if it's not even about lust? This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. So we did an analysis of images in Artstor. They can be small differences but important in other ways. 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? So even if I'm speaking English, the distinctions that I've learned in speaking Russian, for example, are still active in my mind to some extent, but they're more active if I'm actually speaking Russian. And this is NPR. GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. Google Podcasts - hidden brain I'm Shankar Vedantam. So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. You couldn't have predicted this I know-uh move-uh (ph). podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9rd1djMGxoZg==, open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. out. This week, a story about a con with a twist. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. It should just be, here is the natural way, then there's some things that you're supposed to do in public because that's the way it is, whether it's fair or not. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading.

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