UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #9: (Speaking German). 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? You have to do it in order to fit into the culture and to speak the language. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. He's a defender of language on the move, but I wanted to know if there were things that irritated even him. 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. 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're not going to do trigonometry. You can find all Hidden Brain episodes on our website. 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. It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. But things can be important not just because they're big. And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it. BORODITSKY: Yeah. And it really is an illusion that what language is, is something that sits still. by Harry T. Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. And what we find is that if you teach people that forks go with men grammatically in a language, they start to think of forks as being more masculine. Parents and peers influence our major life choices, but they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. They often feel angry about it, and you think this anger is actually telling. Perspectives on the Situation by Harry T. Reis, and John G. Holmes, in The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012. Social Functionalist Frameworks for Judgment and Choice: Intuitive Politicians, Theologians, and Prosecutors, by Philip Tetlock, Psychology Review, 2002. 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. ADAM COLE, BYLINE: (Singing) You put your southwest leg in, and you shake it all about. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. They shape our place in it. So when I ask you to, say, imagine a man walking down the street, well, in your imagery, you're going to have some details completed and some will be left out. And if that is true, then the educated person can look down on people who say Billy and me went to the store or who are using literally, quote, unquote, "wrong" and condemn them in the kinds of terms that once were ordinary for condemning black people or women or what have you. And they have correlated this with gender features in the language, just like the ones you were talking about. Watch Your Mouth | Hidden Brain : NPR BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. Mistakes and errors are what turned Latin into French. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Can I get some chicken? And so he suggested it might be the case that the arbitrarily assigned grammatical genders are actually changing the way people think about these days of the week and maybe all kinds of other things that are named by nouns. Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. And if they were facing east, they would make the cards come toward them, toward the body. And you say that dictionaries in some ways paint an unrealistic portrait of a language. Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose - Google Podcasts And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. Please note that your continued use of the RadioPublic services following the posting of such changes will be deemed an acceptance of this update. So some languages don't have number words. 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 Minimizes Defensive Reactions to Failure, by Peter A. Caprariello and Harry T. Reis, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2011. 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. And there are all kinds of interesting, useful, eye-opening ideas that exist in all of the world's languages. Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts are Influenced by Self-Esteem and Relationship Threat, by Shannon M. Smith & Harry Reis, Personal Relationships, 2012. FEB 27, 2023; Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button . JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. I'm . 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. 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. All of these are very subjective things. Hidden Brain - Transcripts Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness Why do some companies become household names, while others flame out? We use a lot of music on the show! So the question for us has been, how do we build these ideas? 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. Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where. BORODITSKY: Well, there may not be a word for left to refer to a left leg. Well, that's an incredibly large set of things, so that's a very broad effect of language. 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. 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. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. - you would have to say something like, my arm got broken, or it so happened to me that my arm is broken. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. But actually, that's exactly how people in those communities come to stay oriented - is that they learn it, (laughter) right? 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. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. So even if I'm speaking English, the distinctions that I've learned in speaking Russian, for example, are still active in my mind to some extent, but they're more active if I'm actually speaking Russian. 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. HIDDEN BRAIN < Lost in Translation: January 29, 20189:00 PM ET VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. 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? 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. 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. BORODITSKY: I spoke really terrible Indonesian at the time, so I was trying to practice. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #11: (Speaking Russian). They shape our place in it. Hidden Brain | Hidden Brain Media Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. 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. This week, in the final . And nobody wishes that we hadn't developed our modern languages today from the ancient versions. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. That was somehow a dad's fashion, and that I should start wearing flat-fronted pants. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. They're more likely to see through this little game that language has played on them. If you can speak more than one language, does this mean that you're also simultaneously and constantly shifting in your mind between different worldviews? John is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. And they suggest that differences across languages do, in fact, predict some of these measures of gender equality across countries. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. And after listening to you, I realize I might have to finally give in. 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. 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. 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). Imagine this. So you might say, there's an ant on your northwest leg. He didn't like that people were shortening the words. Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Perceived Partner Responsiveness as an Organizing Construct in the Study of Intimacy and Closeness, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. 585: In Defense of Ignorance - This American Life 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. 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. 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. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. 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? VEDANTAM: Languages seem to have different ways of communicating agency. If a transcript is available, you'll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. 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. BORODITSKY: Well, you would be at sea at first. If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. Of course, you also can't experience anything outside of time. Hidden Brain Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Science 4.6 36K Ratings; Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. 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. There are many scholars who would say, look, yes, you do see small differences between speakers of different languages, but these differences are not really significant; they're really small. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. VEDANTAM: (Laughter) All right, I think it might be time for me to confess one of my pet peeves. All rights reserved. VEDANTAM: Many of us have dictionaries at home or at work, John. Hidden Brain. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. 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. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways w, Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. 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? Whats going on here? No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. 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. So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. 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.
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