Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. VEDANTAM: One of the points you make in the book of course is that the evolution of words and their meanings is what gives us this flowering of hundreds or thousands of languages. Of course, if you can't keep track of exactly seven, you can't count. So act like Monday. We also look at how. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. 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? That's what it's all about. 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. 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. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. Social Functionalist Frameworks for Judgment and Choice: Intuitive Politicians, Theologians, and Prosecutors, by Philip Tetlock, Psychology Review, 2002. VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. 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 like most people, you probably abandoned those resolutions within a few weeks. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. What do you do for christmas with your family? No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? They give us a sense that the meanings of words are fixed, when in fact they're not. 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. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. The only question was in which way. 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. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. 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. VEDANTAM: I love this analogy you have in the book where you mention how, you know, thinking that a word has only one meaning is like looking at a snapshot taken at one point in a person's life and saying this photograph represents the entirety of what this person looks like. BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. Because it was. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. 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. Subscribe: iOS | Android | Spotify | RSS | Amazon | Stitcher Latest Episodes: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button And it sounds a little bit abrupt and grabby like you're going to get something instead of being given. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). I just don't want to do it. 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? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). If you take literally in what we can think of as its earliest meaning, the earliest meaning known to us is by the letter. (LAUGHTER) VEDANTAM: In the English-speaking world, she goes by Lera Boroditsky. So LOL starts out as meaning hardy-har-har (ph), but then it becomes something more abstract. In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button MCWHORTER: Yeah. 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. This is HIDDEN BRAIN. Whereas speakers of a language like Spanish might not be quite as good at remembering who did it when it's an accident, but they're better at remembering that it was an accident. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. How to Foster Perceived Partner Responsiveness: High-Quality LIstening is Key, Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS), Toward Understanding Understanding:The Importance of Feeling Understood in Relationships, Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts are Influenced by Self-Esteem and Relationship Threat, Perceived Partner Responsiveness Minimizes Defensive Reactions to Failure, Assessing the Seeds of Relationship Decay: Using Implicit Evaluations to Detect the Early Stages of Disillusionment. 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. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. 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. Languages are not just tools to describe the world. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) I'm willing to get involved. GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. VEDANTAM: I'm Shankar Vedantam. 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. But what if it's not even about lust? All rights reserved. We always knew that certain species of animals had abilities to orient that we thought were better than human, and we always had some biological excuse for why we couldn't do it. I said, you know, this weird thing happened. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. If you're a monolingual speaker of one of these languages, you're very likely to say that the word chair is masculine because chairs are, in fact, masculine, right? Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. They are ways of seeing the world. 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. And some people would say it's a lot more because it's, you know, irrecoverable and not reduplicated elsewhere. VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. The dictionary says both uses are correct. VEDANTAM: My guest today is - well, why don't I let her introduce herself? Now I can stay oriented. I saw this bird's-eye view, and I was this little red dot. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. BORODITSKY: Well, you would be at sea at first. These relationships can help you feel cared for and connected. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? Updated privacy policy: We have made some changes to our Privacy Policy. 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Cholera and malnourishment await Somalis fleeing . And one day, I was walking along, and I was just staring at the ground. Learn more. Those sorts things tend to start with women. 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. But I understand that in Spanish, this would come out quite differently. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking foreign language). As you're going about your day, you likely interact with family, friends and coworkers. But it's a lovely example of how language can guide you to discover something about the world that might take you longer to discover if you didn't have that information in language. BORODITSKY: The way to say my name properly in Russian is (speaking foreign language), so I don't make people say that. 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. MCWHORTER: No, because LOL was an expression; it was a piece of language, and so you knew that its meaning was going to change. Hidden Brain. For more on decision-making, check out our episode on how to make wiser choices. You know, there's no left leg or right leg. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. There's a way of speaking right. This week, in the final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes what happens when we stop to savor the beauty in nature, art, or simply the moral courage of those around us. And so I set myself the goal that I would learn English in a year, and I wouldn't speak Russian to anyone for that whole first year. But if you prefer life - the unpredictability of life - then living language in many ways are much more fun. (Speaking Japanese). What do you think the implications are - if you buy the idea that languages are a very specific and unique way of seeing the world, of perceiving reality, what are the implications of so many languages disappearing during our time? MCWHORTER: You could have fun doing such a thing. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often, untranslatable. 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. 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. Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. I'm Shankar Vedantam. 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. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. Accuracy and availability may vary. Stay with us. That's the way words are, too. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. You know, it's Lady Liberty and Lady Justice. 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. I'm Shankar Vedantam. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. Perspectives on the Situation by Harry T. Reis, and John G. Holmes, in The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012. As someone who works in media, I often find that people who can write well are often people who know how to think well, so I often equate clarity of writing with clarity of thought. But as Bob Cialdini set out to discover the keys to influence and persuasion, he decided to follow the instincts of his childhood. It has to do with the word momentarily. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. 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. And if you don't have a word for exactly seven, it actually becomes very, very hard to keep track of exactly seven. 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. What Makes Lawyers Happy? 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. Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. So there are these wonderful studies by Alexander Giora where he asked kids learning Finnish, English and Hebrew as their first languages basically, are you a boy or a girl? 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. 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. This takes kids a little while to figure out, and he had all kinds of clever ways to ask these questions. 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. So when the perfect woman started writing him letters, it seemed too good to be true. Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. Yes! MCWHORTER: Those are called contronyms, and literally has become a new contronym. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Speaking foreign language). Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Whats going on here? Welcome to HIDDEN BRAIN. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. 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. They know which way is which. It's just how I feel. Well, that's an incredibly large set of things, so that's a very broad effect of language. 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The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. When she was 12, her family came to the United States from the Soviet Union. We lobby a neighbor to vote for our favored political candidate. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. 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. edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. That was somehow a dad's fashion, and that I should start wearing flat-fronted pants. This week, we revisit a favorite episode from 2021, bringing you two stories about how easy it can be to believe in a false reality even when the facts dont back us up. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. And so I was trying to keep track of which way is which. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. To request permission, please send an email to [emailprotected]. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. We convince a colleague to take a different tactic at work. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. This is Hidden Brain. But time doesn't have to flow with respect to the body. 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. Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose Hidden Brain Aug 2, 2021 You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose Play 51 min playlist_add Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the. What turns out to be the case is that it's something in between - that bilinguals don't really turn off the languages they're not using when they're not using them. This week, in the final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes what happens when we stop to sav, Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. 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. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness Why do some companies become household names, while others flame out? 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. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? And if it was feminine, then you're likely to paint death as a woman. So the way you say hi in Kuuk Thaayorre is to say, which way are you heading? Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. When the con was exposed, its victims defended the con artists. VEDANTAM: Languages seem to have different ways of communicating agency. 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. FEB 27, 2023; Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button . He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . This is HIDDEN BRAIN. VEDANTAM: John McWhorter, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. Are the spoken origins of language one reason that words so often seem to be on the move? 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. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? I'm Shankar Vedantam. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? You know, I was trying to stay oriented because people were treating me like I was pretty stupid for not being oriented, and that hurt. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. al, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2008. They're supposed to be painting something very personal. JERRY SEINFELD: (As Jerry Seinfeld) The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice.
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