Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. GEACONE-CRUZ: It's a Sunday afternoon, and it's raining outside. 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. For more of our Relationships 2.0 series, check out one of our most popular episodes ever about why marriages are so hard. And this is NPR. 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. Podcasters use the RadioPublic listener relationship platform to build lasting connections with fans. Reframing Your Reality: Part 1 | Hidden Brain Media 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. VEDANTAM: Languages seem to have different ways of communicating agency. And dead languages never change, and some of us might prefer those. I'm Shankar Vedantam, and you're listening to HIDDEN BRAIN. So it's easy to think, oh, I could imagine someone without thinking explicitly about what they're wearing. Whats going on here? 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. Languages are not just tools. If you, grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your. Hidden Brain on RadioPublic Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. 4.62. They are ways of seeing the world. 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. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) If you're so upset about it, maybe you can think of a way to help her. 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. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. "Most of the laughter we produce is purely . Subscribe: iOS | Android | Spotify | RSS | Amazon | Stitcher Latest Episodes: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button 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. 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. Copyright 2023 Steno. In The Air We Breathe : NPR VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. That is the direction of writing in Hebrew and Arabic, going from right to left. We also look at how. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice. MCWHORTER: Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still. 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. 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? This is a database with millions of art images. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. And you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it out. And we're all going to have feelings like that. Transcript The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. BORODITSKY: That's a wonderful question. And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. So for example, for English speakers - people who read from left to right - time tends to flow from left to right. All of these are very subjective things. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, by Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, Kevin Ochsner, Psychological Science, 2008. Hidden Brain - KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV This is Hidden Brain. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. You couldn't have predicted this I know-uh move-uh (ph). 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? So it's mendokusai. Listen on the Reuters app. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. ), The Sourcebook of Listening Research: Methodology and Measures, 2018. It might irritate you slightly to hear somebody say something like, I need less books instead of fewer books. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. In many languages, nouns are gendered. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. 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? MCWHORTER: Yeah. He's also the author of the book, "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).". 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. VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. Maybe it's, even less than 100 meters away, but you just can't bring yourself to even throw your, coat on over your pajamas, and put your boots on, and go outside and walk those, hundred meters because somehow it would break the coziness, 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. 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. al (Eds. 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 I did that. Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. But what if there's a whole category of people in your life whose impact is overlooked? All sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain are managed by SXM Media. But time doesn't have to flow with respect to the body. Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. BORODITSKY: And Russian is a language that has grammatical gender, and different days of the week have different genders for some reason. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. 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). Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. This week, we continue our look at the science of influence with psychologist Robert Cialdini, and explore how th, We all exert pressure on each other in ways small and profound. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #11: (Speaking Russian). Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #10: (Speaking Russian). And we teach them, for example, to say that bridges and apples and all kinds of other things have the same prefix as women. 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. 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. What do you do for christmas with your family? VEDANTAM: John McWhorter, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. You would never know, for example, that - give you an example I've actually been thinking about. 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. We use a lot of music on the show! We recommend movies or books to a friend. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #16: Not figuratively, it's literally MCWHORTER: Yeah. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. 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. Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button. It can be almost counterintuitive to listen to how much giggling and laughing you do in ordinary - actually rather plain exchanges with people. If you grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your native tongue without even thinking about it. Hidden Brain. You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind | Hidden Brain Media 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 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. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. Hidden Brain: The NPR Archive : NPR - NPR.org This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. 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. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. 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. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe watching Netflix or something. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. That hadn't started then. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. It is the very fabric, the very core of your experience. We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. The only question was in which way. 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. He's a defender of language on the move, but I wanted to know if there were things that irritated even him. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Today's episode was the first in our You 2.0 series, which runs all this month. Now, in a lot of languages, you can't say that because unless you were crazy, and you went out looking to break your arm, and you succeeded - right? Hidden Brain : NPR MCWHORTER: Oh, yeah, I'm a human being. So for example, if Sam grabbed a hammer and struck the flute in anger, that would be one description, like, Sam broke the flute. I think it's a really fascinating question for future research. And it's sad that we're not going to be able to make use of them and learn them and celebrate them. We call this language Gumbuzi. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? 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. JERRY SEINFELD: (As Jerry Seinfeld) The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: (Speaking foreign language). Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 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. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. I had this cool experience when I was there. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking foreign language). It's just how I feel. 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 actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. And if it was feminine, then you're likely to paint death as a woman. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. How do certain memes go viral? Women under about 30 in the United States, when they're excited or they're trying to underline a point, putting uh at the end of things. MCWHORTER: Yes, Shankar, that's exactly it. 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. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. You're not going to do trigonometry. See you next week. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. You can't touch time. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. Languages are not just tools to describe the world. Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams, by Amy Edmondson, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading. We love the idea of Hidden Brain helping to spark discussions in your community. But actually, that's exactly how people in those communities come to stay oriented - is that they learn it, (laughter) right? VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? 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She shows how our conversational styles can cause We all know casual sex isn't about love. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. But we have plenty of words like that in English where it doesn't bother us at all. Stay with us. Each generation hears things and interprets things slightly differently from the previous one. 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 they said, well, of course. 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. And I was telling this person about someone I knew back in America. For example, he might take a bunch of pictures of boys and girls and sort them and say, OK, this is a boy. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. 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 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. When language was like that, of course it changed a lot - fast - because once you said it, it was gone. And after listening to you, I realize I might have to finally give in. So I just think that it's something we need to check ourselves for. But if he just bumped into the table, and it happened to fall off the table and break, and it was an accident, then you might be more likely to say, the flute broke, or the flute broke itself, or it so happened to Sam that the flute broke. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. 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. Not without written permission. BORODITSKY: Yeah. Which pile do you go in, right? This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th So I think it's something that is quite easy for humans to learn if you just have a reason to want to do it. 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. 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. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) I'm willing to get involved. 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. I want everybody to have the fun I'm having. You know, we spend years teaching children about how to use language correctly. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . Learn more. There are signs it's getting even harder. in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. This week, a story about a con with a twist. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. 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. to describe the world. Take the word bridge - if it's feminine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are beautiful and elegant. BORODITSKY: It's certainly possible. 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. VEDANTAM: Would it be possible to use what we have learned about how words and languages evolve to potentially write what a dictionary might look like in 50 years or a hundred years? But somehow they've managed, not just by randomly bumping into each other. 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. And some people would say it's a lot more because it's, you know, irrecoverable and not reduplicated elsewhere. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. We convince a colleague to take a different tactic at work. It's testament to the incredible ingenuity and complexity of the human mind that all of these different perspectives on the world have been invented. 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. 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. ROB LOWE: (As Chris Traeger) Dr. Harris, you are literally the meanest person I have ever met. And they asked me all kinds of questions about them. If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. 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 as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. Read the episode transcript. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. 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 on Apple Podcasts How To Breathe Correctly For Optimal Health, Mood, Learning But things can be important not just because they're big. And it sounds a little bit abrupt and grabby like you're going to get something instead of being given. VEDANTAM: One of the things I found really interesting is that the evolution of words and language is constant. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. He didn't like that people were shortening the words. 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. And so to address that question, what we do is we bring English speakers into the lab, and we teach them grammatical genders in a new language that we invent. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. You can run experiments in a lab or survey people on the street. VEDANTAM: Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. Now, many people hear that and they think, well, that's no good because now literally can mean its opposite. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Speaking foreign language). MCWHORTER: It's a matter of fashion, pure and simple. 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. But does a person who says that really deserve the kind of sneering condemnation that you often see? It's inherent. VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often, untranslatable. And so I was trying to keep track of which way is which. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Relationships 2.0: What Makes Relationships Thrive | Hidden Brain Media VEDANTAM: The moment she heard it, Jennifer realized mendokusai was incredibly useful. Let's start with the word literally. VEDANTAM: (Laughter) All right, I think it might be time for me to confess one of my pet peeves. Thank you! But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? If you liked . Welcome to HIDDEN BRAIN. In the final episode of our Relationships 2.0 series, psychologistHarry Reis says theres another ingredient to successful relationships thats every bit as important as love. So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. This is Hidden Brain. MCWHORTER: Exactly. It has to do with the word momentarily. And I kind of sheepishly confessed this to someone there. So that's a measurement difference of 100 percent of performance. VEDANTAM: I'm Shankar Vedantam. In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004. We post open positions (including internships) on our jobs page. 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. And, I mean, really, it sounds exactly like that. What Makes Lawyers Happy? If you dont see any jobs posted there, feel free to send your resume and cover letter to [emailprotected] and well keep your materials on hand for future openings on the show. But, you know, John, something gnaws at me every time I hear the word used wrong. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. And the answer should be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you? 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. They know which way is which. 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. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. But what if it's not even about lust? 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. It should be thought of as fun. (Speaking Japanese). 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.
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