That's how much cultural heritage is lost. Going the Distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The Vital Role of Identified Motivation, by Kennon M. Sheldon, Motivation Science, 2020. This takes kids a little while to figure out, and he had all kinds of clever ways to ask these questions. Elon Musk's brain chips, starvation in Somalia and Greek anguish 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? And then if you are going to be that elliptical, why use the casual word get? This is HIDDEN BRAIN. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004. And they have correlated this with gender features in the language, just like the ones you were talking about. Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 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. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). If you prefer to listen through a podcast app, here are links to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. They know which way is which. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. It can be almost counterintuitive to listen to how much giggling and laughing you do in ordinary - actually rather plain exchanges with people. You would never know, for example, that - give you an example I've actually been thinking about. 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. In The Air We Breathe . How come you aren't exactly the way you were 10 years ago? Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. And they asked me all kinds of questions about them. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. BORODITSKY: And Russian is a language that has grammatical gender, and different days of the week have different genders for some reason. So when the perfect woman started writing him letters, it seemed too good to be true. 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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. 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. 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. That is the direction of writing in Hebrew and Arabic, going from right to left. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Speaking foreign language). And so somebody will say, well, who was it who you thought was going to give you this present? Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. Yes! But they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #6: (Speaking foreign language). VEDANTAM: So I find that I'm often directionally and navigationally challenged when I'm driving around, and I often get my east-west mixed up with my left-right for reasons I have never been able to fathom. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where. And some people would say it's a lot more because it's, you know, irrecoverable and not reduplicated elsewhere. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST:This is HIDDEN BRAIN. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. VEDANTAM: If you have teenagers or work closely with young people, chances are you'll be mystified by their conversations or even annoyed. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. Lera said there's still a lot of research to be done on this. Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. VEDANTAM: Our conversation made me wonder about what this means on a larger scale. All rights reserved. So for example, for English speakers - people who read from left to right - time tends to flow from left to right. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). So to go back to the example we were just talking about - people who don't use words like left and right - when I gave those picture stories to Kuuk Thaayorre speakers, who use north, south, east and west, they organized the cards from east to west. When the con was exposed, its victims defended the con artists. Of course, you also can't experience anything outside of time. If you take literally in what we can think of as its earliest meaning, the earliest meaning known to us is by the letter. That's what it's all about. Whats going on here? Laughter: The Best Medicine | Hidden Brain : NPR al, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004. 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. 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So you may start with moving your southwest leg in, but then you have to move your northeast leg out. 585: In Defense of Ignorance - This American Life In The Air We Breathe : NPR 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. Additional Resources Book: So it's easy to think, oh, I could imagine someone without thinking explicitly about what they're wearing. This is Hidden Brain. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts 51 min You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose Hidden Brain Social Sciences Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. something, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? Parents and peers influence our major life choices. 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. They give us a sense that the meanings of words are fixed, when in fact they're not. So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. 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. 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. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. 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. He's also the author of the book, "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).". And to our surprise, 78 percent of the time, we could predict the gender of the personification based on the grammatical gender of the noun in the artist's native language. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. And I kind of sheepishly confessed this to someone there. But it's exactly like - it was maybe about 20 years ago that somebody - a girlfriend I had told me that if I wore pants that had little vertical pleats up near the waist, then I was conveying that I was kind of past it. Well never sell your personal information. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. 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. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. BORODITSKY: That's a wonderful question. 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. It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts are Influenced by Self-Esteem and Relationship Threat, by Shannon M. Smith & Harry Reis, Personal Relationships, 2012. We call this language Gumbuzi. Hidden Brain: You, But Better on Apple Podcasts There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. What techniques did that person use to persuade you? But what most people mean is that there'll be slang, that there'll be new words for new things and that some of those words will probably come from other languages. And I would really guess that in a few decades men will be doing it, too. Which pile do you go in, right? Sometimes you just have to suck it up. You-uh (ph). In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. podcast pages. You're also not going to do algebra. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. 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. So you can think about an un-gendered person in the same way that I might think about a person without a specific age or specific height or specific color shirt. Because it was. Growing up, I understood this word to mean for a very short time, as in John McWhorter was momentarily surprised. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. Stay with us. Copyright 2023 Steno. There are signs it's getting even harder. 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. And there are all kinds of interesting, useful, eye-opening ideas that exist in all of the world's languages. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. MCWHORTER: Yeah, I really do. Perspectives on the Situation by Harry T. Reis, and John G. Holmes, in The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012. What we think of today as a word undergoing some odd development or people using some new construction is exactly how Latin turned into French. They shape our place in it. 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. Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. 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. 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. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. 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. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. 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. So it's mendokusai. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). Transcript The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. And one thing that we've noticed is that around the world, people rely on space to organize time. 4.62. Who Do You Want To Be? - Hidden Brain (pdcast) | Listen Notes Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. And it's not just about how we think about time. These relationships can help you feel cared for and connected. Copyright 2018 NPR. Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? So these speakers have internalized this idea from their language, and they believe that it's right. And they said, well, of course. Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #9: (Speaking German). He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . MCWHORTER: Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still. They can be small differences but important in other ways. The only question was in which way. Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. 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. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. The categorization that language provides to you becomes real, becomes psychologically real. June 20, 2020 This week on Hidden Brain, research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. 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. This week, we're going to bring you a conversation I had in front of a live audience with Richard Thaler, taped on Halloween at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D. Richard is a professor of behavioral sciences and economics at the University of Chicago and is a well-known author. 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. 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. So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. 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. 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. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. And very competent adults of our culture can't do that. Whats going on here? How else would you do it? All episodes of Hidden Brain - Chartable What techniques did that person use to persuade you? HIDDEN BRAIN < Lost in Translation: January 29, 20189:00 PM ET VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. 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. Learn more. But, you know, John, something gnaws at me every time I hear the word used wrong. al (Eds. Of course, if you can't keep track of exactly seven, you can't count. In this favorite episode from 2021, Cornell University psychologist Anthony Burrow explains why purpose isnt something to be found its something we can develop from within. Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS), by Harry T. Reis et. 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't smell or taste time. Language was talk. For example, if you take seeds and put them in the ground, that's one thing. 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. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Speaking foreign language). When language was like that, of course it changed a lot - fast - because once you said it, it was gone. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button In many languages, nouns are gendered. 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 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.
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