You can search for the episode or browse all episodes on our Archive Page. VEDANTAM: My guest today is - well, why don't I let her introduce herself? Of course, if you can't keep track of exactly seven, you can't count. 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. 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. HIDDEN BRAIN < Lost in Translation: January 29, 20189:00 PM ET VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. 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. Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. For example, if you take seeds and put them in the ground, that's one thing. You can't smell or taste time. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. If it is the first time you login, a new account will be created automatically. They shape our place in it. But what we should teach is not that the good way is logical and the way that you're comfortable doing it is illogical. But I think that we should learn not to listen to people using natural language as committing errors because there's no such thing as making a mistake in your language if a critical mass of other people speaking your language are doing the same thing. VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. You can find all Hidden Brain episodes on our website. 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. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. But actually, that's exactly how people in those communities come to stay oriented - is that they learn it, (laughter) right? 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. Language was talk. Transcript 585: In Defense of Ignorance Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. 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. Whats going on here? That's what it's all about. Updated privacy policy: We have made some changes to our Privacy Policy. 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. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. As you're going about your day, you likely interact with family, friends and coworkers. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. So we did an analysis of images in Artstor. And as odd as that sounds, I can guarantee you if you watch any TV show with women under a certain age or if you just go out on an American street and listen, you'll find that that's a new kind of exclamatory particle. Copyright 2018 NPR. BORODITSKY: It's certainly possible. Languages are not just tools to describe the world. 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. This is Hidden Brain. There's a way of speaking right. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? They're more likely to see through this little game that language has played on them. 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. Refusing to Apologize can have Psychological Benefits, by Tyler Okimoto, Michael Wenzel and Kyli Hedrick, European Journal of Social Psychology, 2013. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9rd1djMGxoZg==, open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh. Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. In The Air We Breathe : NPR Whats going on here? You would give a different description to mark that it was not intentional. And in fact, speakers of languages like this have been shown to orient extremely well - much better than we used to think humans could. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. 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? BORODITSKY: One thing that we've noticed is this idea of time, of course, is very highly constructed by our minds and our brains. Additional Resources Book: In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? 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. VEDANTAM: I want to talk in the second half of our conversation about why the meanings of words change, but I want to start by talking about how they change. Whats going on here? That's the way words are, too. MCWHORTER: Thank you for having me, Shankar. The categorization that language provides to you becomes real, becomes psychologically real. So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. And if it was feminine, then you're likely to paint death as a woman. 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. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 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? (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). 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. For more on decision-making, check out our episode on how to make wiser choices. And I don't think any of us are thinking that it's a shame that we're not using the language of Beowulf. 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. MCWHORTER: It's a matter of fashion, pure and simple. 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. Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. It's too high. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. But we have plenty of words like that in English where it doesn't bother us at all. Who Do You Want To Be? | Hidden Brain Media 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. Listen on the Reuters app. Languages are not just tools. Hidden Brain: You, But Better on Apple Podcasts It's how we think about anything that's abstract, that's beyond our physical senses. And after listening to you, I realize I might have to finally give in. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. 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. The size of this effect really quite surprised me because I would have thought at the outset that, you know, artists are these iconoclasts. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. something, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. 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. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. 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 I did that. 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. 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And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Speaking foreign language). 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. This week, in the fourth and final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. There's been a little bit of research from economists actually looking at this. But they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #9: (Speaking German). 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So I think it's an incredible tragedy that we're losing all of this linguistic diversity, all of this cultural diversity because it is human heritage. So LOL was an internet abbreviation meaning laugh out loud or laughing out loud, but LOL in common usage today doesn't necessarily mean hysterical laughter. Bu 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. Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. So to give you a very quick wrap-up is that some effects are big, but even when effects aren't big, they can be interesting or important for other reasons - either because they are very broad or because they apply to things that we think are really important in our culture. 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. Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. Which pile do you go in, right? Our team includes Laura Kwerel, Adhiti Bandlamudi and our supervising producer Tara Boyle. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. Hidden Brain Claim By Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Podcasts RSS Web PODCAST SEARCH EPISODES COMMUNITY PODCASTER EDIT SHARE Listen Score LS 84 Global Rank TOP 0.01% ABOUT THIS PODCAST Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 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. So act like Monday. In The Air We Breathe . 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). 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. VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. VEDANTAM: One of the ultimate messages I took from your work is that, you know, we can choose to have languages that are alive or languages that are dead. 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. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. 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? Hidden Brain - Transcripts 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. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. And so for me, that question was born in that conversation of are there some languages where it's easier to imagine a person without their characteristics of gender filled in? In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. John is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Shelly. How else would you do it? Each generation hears things and interprets things slightly differently from the previous one. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. Relationships 2.0: What Makes Relationships Thrive | Hidden Brain Media Mistakes and errors are what turned Latin into French. VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often, untranslatable. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. But things can be important not just because they're big. If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. So the word for the is different for women than for men, and it's also different for forks versus spoons and things like that. All rights reserved. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where. 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? And if people heard the sounds a little differently and produced them a little differently, if there were new meanings of words - very quickly whatever the original meaning was wouldn't be remembered. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. Toula and Ian's different backgrounds become apparent on one of their very first dates. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. And then if you are going to be that elliptical, why use the casual word get? We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness can seem more el, When we want something very badly, it can be hard to see warning signs that might be obvious to other people. All sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain are managed by SXM Media. 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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. Well, that's an incredibly large set of things, so that's a very broad effect of language. 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. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. 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. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. I'm Shankar Vedantam. And very competent adults of our culture can't do that. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? 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. And the answer should be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you? "Most of the laughter we produce is purely . The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes. It seems kind of elliptical, like, would it be possible that I obtained? VEDANTAM: I'm Shankar Vedantam. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: (Speaking foreign language). They give us a sense that the meanings of words are fixed, when in fact they're not. You're not going to do any of the things that are seen as a foundation of our technological society. That was somehow a dad's fashion, and that I should start wearing flat-fronted pants. Accuracy and availability may vary. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. This is NPR. 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. If a transcript is available, you'll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. Each language comprises the ideas that have been worked out in a culture over thousands of generations, and that is an incredible amount of cultural heritage and complexity of thought that disappears whenever a language dies.
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