I'm Shankar Vedantam. In this week's My Unsung Hero, Sarah Feldman thanks someone for their gift more than 20 years ago. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, Going the Distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The Vital Role of Identified Motivation, Athletic Scholarships are Negatively Associated with Intrinsic Motivation for Sports, Even Decades Later: Evidence for Long-Term Undermining, Rightly Crossing the Rubicon: Evaluating Goal Self-Concordance Prior to Selection Helps People Choose More Intrinsic Goals, What Makes Lawyers Happy? JERRY SEINFELD: (As Jerry Seinfeld) The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. So earlier things are on the left. 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? My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. They often feel angry about it, and you think this anger is actually telling. 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. VEDANTAM: Languages orient us to the world. 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. 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. 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'm . And dead languages never change, and some of us might prefer those. It's too high. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. Our team includes Laura Kwerel, Adhiti Bandlamudi and our supervising producer Tara Boyle. You can run experiments in a lab or survey people on the street. 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. VEDANTAM: Languages seem to have different ways of communicating agency. So that, again, is a huge difference. But actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts This is NPR. 00:51:58 - We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. I'm Shankar Vedantam. It's part of a general running indication that everything's OK between you and the other person, just like one's expected to smile a little bit in most interactions. 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. FEB 27, 2023; Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button . Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. When she was 12, her family came to the United States from the Soviet Union. 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. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Right. 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. It should be thought of as fun. Take the word bridge - if it's feminine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are beautiful and elegant. Could this affect the way, you know, sexism, conscious or unconscious, operates in our world? VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. Physicist Richard Feynman once said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." One way we fool ourselves is by imagining we know more than we do; we think we are experts. We post open positions (including internships) on our jobs page. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. How else would you do it? He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . And nobody wishes that we hadn't developed our modern languages today from the ancient versions. What a cynical thing to say, but that doesn't mean that it might not be true. This takes kids a little while to figure out, and he had all kinds of clever ways to ask these questions. And so language changed just like the clouds in the sky. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. 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. 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. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. That kind of detail may not appear. What Do You Do When Things Go Right? So I think that nobody would say that they don't think language should change. 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. 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 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: So I want to talk about a debate that's raged in your field for many years. And they said, well, of course. We don't want to be like that. So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. 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. (Speaking Japanese). Hidden Brain on RadioPublic They are ways of seeing the world. 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. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. And we teach them, for example, to say that bridges and apples and all kinds of other things have the same prefix as women. It can be almost counterintuitive to listen to how much giggling and laughing you do in ordinary - actually rather plain exchanges with people. Hidden Brain - Transcripts I think it's a really fascinating question for future research. It goes in this pile. But we have plenty of words like that in English where it doesn't bother us at all. LERA BORODITSKY: The categorization that language provides to you becomes real - becomes psychologically real. So that's a measurement difference of 100 percent of performance. GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. We love the idea of Hidden Brain helping to spark discussions in your community. MCWHORTER: Exactly. I just don't want to do it. 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. 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. They shape our place in it. VEDANTAM: Many of us have dictionaries at home or at work, John. But things can be important not just because they're big. I'm Shankar Vedanta. My Unsung Hero: A belated thank you : NPR Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. If a transcript is available, youll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. Languages are not just tools to describe the world. Well never sell your personal information. 437 Episodes Produced by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Website. That's what it's all about. Whats going on here? Copyright 2023 Steno. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. Whats going on here? It might irritate you slightly to hear somebody say something like, I need less books instead of fewer books. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. Hidden Brain on Apple Podcasts Now, many people hear that and they think, well, that's no good because now literally can mean its opposite. That's because change is hard. There's a way of speaking right. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Hidden Brain Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. Just saying hello was difficult. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about language. So one possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside - right? I decided it was very important for me to learn English because I had always been a very verbal kid, and I'd - was always the person who recited poems in front of the school and, you know, led assemblies and things like that. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness Why do some companies become household names, while others flame out? 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. out. Hidden Brain: You, But Better on Apple Podcasts 50 min You, But Better Hidden Brain Social Sciences Think about the resolutions you made this year: to quit smoking, eat better, or get more exercise. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. 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. But I find that people now usually use the word to mean very soon, as in we're going to board the plane momentarily. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. You can't touch time. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. He's a defender of language on the move, but I wanted to know if there were things that irritated even him. It's just how I feel. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. But if I give that same story to a Hebrew or an Arabic speaker, they would organize it from right to left. In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. And I thought, wow, first of all, it would be almost impossible to have a conversation like that in English where you hadn't already revealed the gender of the person because you have to use he or she. And as soon as I saw that happen, I thought, oh, this makes it so much easier. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. Please note that your continued use of the RadioPublic services following the posting of such changes will be deemed an acceptance of this update. 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