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. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. 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. 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 something, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. For more of our Relationships 2.0 series, check out one of our most popular episodes ever about why marriages are so hard. 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. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. 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 can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Right. It's not something that you typically go out trying to do intentionally. In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. 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. 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. 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. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. So when the perfect woman started writing him letters, it seemed too good to be true. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? You're not going to do trigonometry. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. 4.62. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. This is Hidden Brain. I saw this bird's-eye view, and I was this little red dot. Hidden Brain - Transcripts Hidden Brain - Transcripts Subscribe 435 episodes Share Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. BORODITSKY: That's a wonderful question. This week, a story about a con with a twist. So if the word for death was masculine in your language, you were likely to paint death as a man. FAQ | Hidden Brain Media Google Podcasts - hidden brain But the reason that it seems so elusive is because we don't really think about the, quote, unquote, "meaning" of things like our conversation-easing laughter. Whats going on here? We don't want to be like that. 00:51:58 - We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. 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. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. So you have speakers of two different languages look at the same event and come away with different memories of what happened because of the structure of their languages and the way they would normally describe them. When she was 12, her family came to the United States from the Soviet Union. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. And one day, I was walking along, and I was just staring at the ground. To request permission, please send an email to [emailprotected]. 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. If you take literally in what we can think of as its earliest meaning, the earliest meaning known to us is by the letter. 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? edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #9: (Speaking German). They believe that their language reflects the true structure of the world. And they suggest that differences across languages do, in fact, predict some of these measures of gender equality across countries. BORODITSKY: Yeah. 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. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #6: (Speaking foreign language). If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. So for example, if Sam grabbed a hammer and struck the flute in anger, that would be one description, like, Sam broke the flute. Language as it evolved was just talking to an extent that can be very hard for we literate people to imagine. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Toula and Ian's different backgrounds become apparent on one of their very first dates. I'm Shankar Vedantam. 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. 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. If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? So the way you say hi in Kuuk Thaayorre is to say, which way are you heading? Additional Resources Book: What Makes Lawyers Happy? This week, in the final . Whats going on here? It's exactly how old English turned into modern English. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. In many languages, nouns are gendered. That is the most random thing. 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. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. ), The Sourcebook of Listening Research: Methodology and Measures, 2018. I'm Shankar Vedantam. It's never happened. 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's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. 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. As soon as you move the leg, it becomes a different leg. Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose - Google Podcasts When the con was exposed, its victims defended the con artists. And to arrive in a new place where you can't tell a joke and can't express an idea - oh, it's just really painful because you feel like your whole self is hiding inside and no one can see it. And they said, well, of course. 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. She shows how our conversational styles can cause We all know casual sex isn't about love. 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. 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? And I did that. al, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004. Look at it. VEDANTAM: If languages are shaped by the way people see the world, but they also shape how people see the world, what does this mean for people who are bilingual? So act like Monday. 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. There's not a bigger difference you could find than 100 percent of the measurement space. All rights reserved. It might irritate you slightly to hear somebody say something like, I need less books instead of fewer books. So one possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside - right? VEDANTAM: Around the world, we often hear that many languages are dying, and there are a few megalanguages that are growing and expanding in all kinds of ways. VEDANTAM: (Laughter) All right, I think it might be time for me to confess one of my pet peeves. For example, he might take a bunch of pictures of boys and girls and sort them and say, OK, this is a boy. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. 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. And he started by asking Russian-speaking students to personify days of the week. Whats going on here? Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. In a lot of languages, there isn't. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. And we looked at every personification and allegory in Artstor and asked, does the language that you speak matter for how you paint death, depending on whether the word death is masculine or feminine in your language? 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. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. It can be almost counterintuitive to listen to how much giggling and laughing you do in ordinary - actually rather plain exchanges with people. VEDANTAM: John McWhorter, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. Why researchers should think real-world: A conceptual rationale, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life, 2012. Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. Of course, you also can't experience anything outside of time. Maybe it's even less than a hundred 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. VEDANTAM: I'm Shankar Vedantam. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Only a couple hundred languages - or if you want to be conservative about it, a hundred languages - are written in any real way and then there are 6,800 others. VEDANTAM: If you have teenagers or work closely with young people, chances are you'll be mystified by their conversations or even annoyed. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. John is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. But I understand that in Spanish, this would come out quite differently. 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? Imagine this. 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. All rights reserved. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). But if they were sitting facing north, they would lay out the story from right to left. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. by Harry T. Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? She once visited an aboriginal community in northern Australia and found the language they spoke forced her mind to work in new ways. JERRY SEINFELD: (As Jerry Seinfeld) The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. But if you seed a watermelon, nobody assumes that you're taking seeds and putting them in the watermelon, you're taking them out. 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. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. 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. 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 bilinguals are kind of this in-between case where they can't quite turn off their other languages, but they become more prominent, more salient when you are actually speaking the language or surrounded by the language. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Speaking foreign language). We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy. native tongue without even thinking about it. I think language can certainly be a contributor into the complex system of our thinking about gender. It has to do with the word momentarily. Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams, by Amy Edmondson, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999. You're also not going to do algebra. But what if it's not even about lust? Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Stay with us. So for example, for English speakers - people who read from left to right - time tends to flow from left to right. 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. Learn more. BORODITSKY: Yeah. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. And then 10 years later when they're 49, you say, well, that picture of you at 39 is what you really are and whatever's happened to you since then is some sort of disaster or something that shouldn't have happened. People who breathe too much put their bodies in a hypoxic state, with not enough oxygen to the brain How breath moves in the body: air comes in through the nose and mouth; the larynx (rigid tube to avoid closing) brings air from the nose and mouth to the lungs Lungs can expand and contract to bring in or expel air I'm Shankar Vedantam. 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? Parents and peers influence our major life choices, but they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. This is HIDDEN BRAIN. But what we should teach is not that the good way is logical and the way that you're comfortable doing it is illogical. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. Whats going on here? But time doesn't have to flow with respect to the body. 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