Google Podcasts - hidden brain Language was talk. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? But I understand that in Spanish, this would come out quite differently. 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. We couldnt survive without the many public radio stations that support our show and they cant survive without you. Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-being: The Self-Concordance Model, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Andrew J. Elliot, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #11: (Speaking Russian). Newsletter: I'm Shankar Vedantam. Additional Resources Book: You know, we spend years teaching children about how to use language correctly. For example, he might take a bunch of pictures of boys and girls and sort them and say, OK, this is a boy. And if you can enjoy it as a parade instead of wondering why people keep walking instead of just sitting on chairs and blowing on their tubas and not moving, then you have more fun.
5.3 Misbehaving Hidden Brain NPR - HOURLY NEWS DONATE < Predictably al (Eds. Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST:This is HIDDEN BRAIN. They're supposed to be painting something very personal. So we've done a lot of studies looking at how speakers of Spanish and German and Russian actually think about objects that have opposite grammatical genders. HIDDEN BRAIN < Lost in Translation: January 29, 20189:00 PM ET VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Each language comprises the ideas that have been worked out in a culture over thousands of generations, and that is an incredible amount of cultural heritage and complexity of thought that disappears whenever a language dies. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. And as soon as I saw that happen, I thought, oh, this makes it so much easier. MCWHORTER: You could have fun doing such a thing. And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? I'm Shankar Vedantam. 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. Which pile do you go in, right? Whats going on here? 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. Of course, if you can't keep track of exactly seven, you can't count. something, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. 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. After claiming your Listen Notes podcast pages, you will be able to: Respond to listener comments on Listen Notes, Use speech-to-text techniques to transcribe your show and BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy.
Hidden Brain : NPR Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. And so somebody will say, well, who was it who you thought was going to give you this present? When we come back, I'm going to ask you about why languages change and whether there are hidden rules that shape why some words are more likely to evolve than others. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. And I can't help surmising that part of it is that the educated American has been taught and often well that you're not supposed to look down on people because of gender, because of race, because of ability. 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. Official Website Airs on: SUN 7pm-8pm 55:27 Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button Feb 27 Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. native tongue without even thinking about it. But they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. You're also not going to do algebra. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #10: (Speaking Russian). 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. You can also connect directly with our sponsorship representative by emailing [emailprotected]. And if you teach them that forks go with women, they start to think that forks are more feminine. Does a speaker of a language, like Spanish, who has to assign gender to so many things, end up seeing the world as more gendered? Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Of course, you also can't experience anything outside of time. It's as if you saw a person - I'm not going to say at 4 because then the person is growing up, and if I use that analogy then it seems like I'm saying that language grows up or it moves toward something or it develops. But time doesn't have to flow with respect to the body. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Bu Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it.
Laughter: The Best Medicine | Hidden Brain : NPR VEDANTAM: If languages are shaped by the way people see the world, but they also shape how people see the world, what does this mean for people who are bilingual? And there are consequences for how people think about events, what they notice when they see accidents. How come you aren't exactly the way you were 10 years ago? Stay with us. 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. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? Toward Understanding Understanding:The Importance of Feeling Understood in Relationships, by Harry Reis, Edward P. Lemay Jr, and Catrin Finkenauer, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2017. 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.
Decoding Emotions - Transcripts Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? But it turns out humans can stay oriented really, really well, provided that their language and culture requires them to keep track of this information. So the way you say hi in Kuuk Thaayorre is to say, which way are you heading? Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness can seem more elusive the harder we chase it, and what we can do instead to build a lasting sense of contentment. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. The Effects of Conflict Types, Dimensions, and Emergent States on Group Outcomes, by Karen Jehn et. - you would have to say something like, my arm got broken, or it so happened to me that my arm is broken. The best Podcast API to search all podcasts and episodes. Writing has come along relatively recently. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. 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. And we're all going to have feelings like that. Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. Welcome to HIDDEN BRAIN. I'm Shankar Vedanta. For more on decision-making, check out our episode on how to make wiser choices. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. It's never happened.
In The Air We Breathe : NPR The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? BORODITSKY: Well, there may not be a word for left to refer to a left leg. * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. Only a couple hundred languages - or if you want to be conservative about it, a hundred languages - are written in any real way and then there are 6,800 others. 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.
Hidden Brain Host Explains Why We Lie to Ourselves Every Day 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). VEDANTAM: My guest today is - well, why don't I let her introduce herself? al (Eds. 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. We'd say, oh, well, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales or whatever. BORODITSKY: Yeah. 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. But it's so hard to feel that partly because our brains are on writing, as I say in the book. So some languages don't have number words. Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. Later things are on the right.
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. This is NPR. 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. I'm Shankar Vedantam. 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. So it's mendokusai. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. I want everybody to have the fun I'm having. podcast pages. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. 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. We call this language Gumbuzi. And then question 21 was, is this person a man or a woman? If you prefer to listen through a podcast app, here are links to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. And then 10 years later when they're 49, you say, well, that picture of you at 39 is what you really are and whatever's happened to you since then is some sort of disaster or something that shouldn't have happened. this is hidden brain I'm Shankar Vedantam in the classic TV series Star Trek Mister Spock has a foolproof technique for accurately reading the thoughts and feelings of others the Vulcan mind I am Spock you James our minds are moving closer most most here are kind of hard we have new technology that gives us direct access to the minds of others so People who breathe too much put their bodies in a hypoxic state, with not enough oxygen to the brain How breath moves in the body: air comes in through the nose and mouth; the larynx (rigid tube to avoid closing) brings air from the nose and mouth to the lungs Lungs can expand and contract to bring in or expel air 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. A free podcast app for iPhone and Android, Download episodes while on WiFi to listen without using mobile data, Stream podcast episodes without waiting for a download, Queue episodes to create a personal continuous playlist, Web embed players designed to convert visitors to listeners in the RadioPublic apps for iPhone and Android, Capture listener activity with affinity scores, Measure your promotional campaigns and integrate with Google and Facebook analytics, Deliver timely Calls To Action, including email acquistion for your mailing list, Share exactly the right moment in an episode via text, email, and social media, Tip and transfer funds directly to podcastsers, Earn money for qualified plays in the RadioPublic apps with Paid Listens. 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. John, you've noted that humans have been using language for a very long time, but for most of that time language has been about talking.
But, you know, John, something gnaws at me every time I hear the word used wrong. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. 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. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. 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. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. So if the word for death was masculine in your language, you were likely to paint death as a man. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? And one thing that we've noticed is that around the world, people rely on space to organize time.
Hidden Brain: You, But Better on Apple Podcasts VEDANTAM: I'm Shankar Vedantam. So act like Monday. And so for example, if the word chair is masculine in your language, why is that? They believe that their language reflects the true structure of the world. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? VEDANTAM: Our conversation made me wonder about what this means on a larger scale.
In this favorite episode from 2021, Cornell University psychologist Anthony Burrow explains why purpose isnt something to be found its somethi, It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. Perceived Partner Responsiveness as an Organizing Construct in the Study of Intimacy and Closeness, by Harry T. Reis, et. But if they were sitting facing north, they would lay out the story from right to left. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? The fun example I give my students is imagine playing the hokey pokey in a language like this. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. MCWHORTER: Exactly. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. That hadn't started then. That is exactly why you should say fewer books instead of less books in some situations and, yes, Billy and I went to the store rather than the perfectly natural Billy and me went to the store. And I did that.
Hidden Brain It's exactly how old English turned into modern English. You know, endings are going to tend to drop off. And to arrive in a new place where you can't tell a joke and can't express an idea - oh, it's just really painful because you feel like your whole self is hiding inside and no one can see it. VEDANTAM: One of the things I found really interesting is that the evolution of words and language is constant. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. Accuracy and availability may vary. This takes kids a little while to figure out, and he had all kinds of clever ways to ask these questions. You would never know, for example, that - give you an example I've actually been thinking about. You can't touch time. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. We post open positions (including internships) on our jobs page. There's a lowlier part of our nature that grammar allows us to vent in the absence of other ways to do it that have not been available for some decades for a lot of us. 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. So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. 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. Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS), by Harry T. Reis et. edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. He didn't like that people were shortening the words. She once visited an aboriginal community in northern Australia and found the language they spoke forced her mind to work in new ways. The size of this effect really quite surprised me because I would have thought at the outset that, you know, artists are these iconoclasts. And so for me, that question was born in that conversation of are there some languages where it's easier to imagine a person without their characteristics of gender filled in? In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? You know, there's no left leg or right leg. You're not going to do trigonometry. One study that I love is a study that asked monolingual speakers of Italian and German and also bilingual speakers of Italian and German to give reasons for why things are the grammatical genders that they are. 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. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. And what he found was kids who were learning Hebrew - this is a language that has a lot of gender loading in it - figured out whether they were a boy or a girl about a year sooner than kids learning Finnish, which doesn't have a lot of gender marking in the language. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. ), Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy, 2004. But if you seed a watermelon, nobody assumes that you're taking seeds and putting them in the watermelon, you're taking them out. They are ways of seeing the world. It's too high. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking foreign language). If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. And, I mean, really, it sounds exactly like that. Put this image on your website to promote the show -, Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through, Report inappropriate content or request to remove this page. That is the most random thing. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. And in fact, speakers of languages like this have been shown to orient extremely well - much better than we used to think humans could. And what's cool about languages, like the languages spoken in Pormpuraaw, is that they don't use words like left and right, and instead, everything is placed in cardinal directions like north, south, east and west. VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. And it irritates people, but there's a different way of seeing literally. The Effective Negotiator Part 1: The Behavior of Successful Negotiators and The Effective Negotiator Part 2: Planning for Negotiations, by Neil Rackham and John Carlisle, Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978. 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? Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain.
Hidden Brain on RadioPublic 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. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? You know, it's Lady Liberty and Lady Justice. That kind of detail may not appear. 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. If you liked . VEDANTAM: Languages seem to have different ways of communicating agency. But things can be important not just because they're big. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. Could this affect the way, you know, sexism, conscious or unconscious, operates in our world? If you missed it, Think back to the last time someone convinced you to do something you didn't want to do, or to spend money you didn't want to spend. and pick the featured episodes for your show. The dictionary says both uses are correct. BORODITSKY: Yeah. 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? Athletic Scholarships are Negatively Associated with Intrinsic Motivation for Sports, Even Decades Later: Evidence for Long-Term Undermining, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Arlen C. Moller, Motivation Science, 2020. And so somebody says something literally, somebody takes a point literally. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. 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.
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