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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. 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 week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. 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. And a girl goes in this pile. So one possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside - right? Well, if you have a word like that and if it's an intensifier of that kind, you can almost guess that literally is going to come to mean something more like just really. In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? And, I mean, really, it sounds exactly like that. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #11: (Speaking Russian). You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. So you can't know how the words are going to come out, but you can take good guesses. But we have plenty of words like that in English where it doesn't bother us at all. So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. You know, it's Lady Liberty and Lady Justice. So these speakers have internalized this idea from their language, and they believe that it's right. 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. 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? And I would really guess that in a few decades men will be doing it, too. VEDANTAM: If you have teenagers or work closely with young people, chances are you'll be mystified by their conversations or even annoyed. VEDANTAM: The moment she heard it, Jennifer realized mendokusai was incredibly useful. How so? And so I set myself the goal that I would learn English in a year, and I wouldn't speak Russian to anyone for that whole first year. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page, sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain. 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. 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. Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. All rights reserved. And they asked me all kinds of questions about them. 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. al (Eds. 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. Later things are on the right. Whats going on here? JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. BORODITSKY: I had this wonderful opportunity to work with my colleague Alice Gaby in this community called Pormpuraaw in - on Cape York. Whats going on here? He says there are things we can do to make sure our choices align with our deepest values. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? There's a way of speaking right. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). Perspectives on the Situation by Harry T. Reis, and John G. Holmes, in The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. And there are all kinds of interesting, useful, eye-opening ideas that exist in all of the world's languages. So that's a measurement difference of 100 percent of performance. Parents and peers influence our major life choices, but they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. They're supposed to be painting something very personal. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. You know, endings are going to tend to drop off. But somehow they've managed, not just by randomly bumping into each other. Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, by Kennon M. Sheldon, 2022. Read the episode transcript. But I understand that in Spanish, this would come out quite differently. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. They're more likely to see through this little game that language has played on them. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. 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. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. So it's mendokusai. It goes in this pile. For more on decision-making, check out our episode on how to make wiser choices. How does that sound now? The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . And dead languages never change, and some of us might prefer those. Think back to the last time someone convinced you to do something you didn't want to do, or to spend money you didn't want to spend. It seems kind of elliptical, like, would it be possible that I obtained? Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. Toula and Ian's different backgrounds become apparent on one of their very first dates. Because it was. And what he noticed was that when people were trying to act like Monday, they would act like a man. 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. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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. 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. "Most of the laughter we produce is purely . 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. You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. This is a database with millions of art images. This week, in the final . That's because change is hard. You're not going to do trigonometry. He. You're also not going to do algebra. You can search for the episode or browse all episodes on our Archive Page. So you may start with moving your southwest leg in, but then you have to move your northeast leg out. VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often, untranslatable. 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. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: (Speaking foreign language). But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? 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. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). BORODITSKY: Well, there may not be a word for left to refer to a left leg. 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. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. In a lot of languages, there isn't. This week, in the fourth and final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes . : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. 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. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. - you would have to say something like, my arm got broken, or it so happened to me that my arm is broken. and pick the featured episodes for your show. If you take literally in what we can think of as its earliest meaning, the earliest meaning known to us is by the letter. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. And some people would say it's a lot more because it's, you know, irrecoverable and not reduplicated elsewhere. Updated privacy policy: We have made some changes to our Privacy Policy. If you liked . And all of a sudden, I noticed that there was a new window that had popped up in my mind, and it was like a little bird's-eye view of the landscape that I was walking through, and I was a little red dot that was moving across the landscape. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. Those sorts things tend to start with women. And then when I turned, this little window stayed locked on the landscape, but it turned in my mind's eye. Shankar Vedantam, host of the popular podcast "Hidden Brain" has been reporting on human behavior for decades. Languages are not just tools to describe the world. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. And I was telling this person about someone I knew back in America. Going the Distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The Vital Role of Identified Motivation, by Kennon M. Sheldon, Motivation Science, 2020. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. And one thing that we've noticed is that around the world, people rely on space to organize time. It is the very fabric, the very core of your experience. Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date. I've always found that a very grating way to ask for something at a store. And so for example, if the word chair is masculine in your language, why is that? Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. 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. 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about 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. Hidden Brain Feb 23, 2023 Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. Which pile do you go in, right? Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. 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. Hidden Brain 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. But what if it's not even about lust? Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. Not without written permission. John is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Of course, you also can't experience anything outside of time. Newsletter: Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) If you're so upset about it, maybe you can think of a way to help her. So if the word for death was masculine in your language, you were likely to paint death as a man. You know, there's no left leg or right leg. What turns out to be the case is that it's something in between - that bilinguals don't really turn off the languages they're not using when they're not using them. I think it's a really fascinating question for future research. You can't smell or taste time. ADAM COLE, BYLINE: (Singing) You put your southwest leg in, and you shake it all about. Whats going on here? 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. Language was talk. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. But they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Speaking foreign language). If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. 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 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. If you're like most people, you probably abandoned those resolutions within a few weeks. Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? What techniques did that person use to persuade you? How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? This is HIDDEN BRAIN. They give us a sense that the meanings of words are fixed, when in fact they're not. 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. The best Podcast API to search all podcasts and episodes. Dictionaries are wonderful things, but they create an illusion that there's such thing as a language that stands still, when really it's the nature of human language to change. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. So what happens is that once literally comes to feel like it means really, people start using it in figurative constructions such as I was literally dying of thirst. 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. VEDANTAM: Many of us have dictionaries at home or at work, John. FEB 27, 2023; Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button . Subscribe: iOS | Android | Spotify | RSS | Amazon | Stitcher Latest Episodes: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. This is Hidden Brain. MCWHORTER: Exactly. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. (Speaking Japanese). Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. And if it was feminine, then you're likely to paint death as a woman. 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? 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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. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes. It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. And this is NPR. It's just how I feel. She once visited an aboriginal community in northern Australia and found the language they spoke forced her mind to work in new ways. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. To request permission, please send an email to [emailprotected]. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #6: (Speaking foreign language). If you grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your native tongue without even thinking about it. 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: Still don't have a clear picture? And you say that dictionaries in some ways paint an unrealistic portrait of a language. And after listening to you, I realize I might have to finally give in. VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. Just go to the magnifying glass in the top right corner, click on it, and use the search function at the top of the page. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). 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? It's never happened. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) I'm willing to get involved. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. That hadn't started then. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. But what we should teach is not that the good way is logical and the way that you're comfortable doing it is illogical. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? You-uh (ph). And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. 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. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. And the answer should be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you? What Makes Lawyers Happy? BORODITSKY: Actually, one of the first people to notice or suggest that this might be the case was a Russian linguist, Roman Jakobson. And it irritates people, but there's a different way of seeing literally. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? And if you can enjoy it as a parade instead of wondering why people keep walking instead of just sitting on chairs and blowing on their tubas and not moving, then you have more fun. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. by Harry T. Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. For example, if you take seeds and put them in the ground, that's one thing. 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. But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? How come you aren't exactly the way you were 10 years ago? If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Social Functionalist Frameworks for Judgment and Choice: Intuitive Politicians, Theologians, and Prosecutors, by Philip Tetlock, Psychology Review, 2002. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. So for example, English speakers, because they're very likely to say, he did it or someone did it, they are very good at remembering who did it, even if it's an accident. BORODITSKY: Yeah. Now, many people hear that and they think, well, that's no good because now literally can mean its opposite. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #16: Not figuratively, it's literally MCWHORTER: Yeah. 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. It has to do with the word momentarily. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? MCWHORTER: It's a matter of fashion, pure and simple. 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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. 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? VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. 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. In this week's My Unsung Hero, Sarah Feldman thanks someone for their gift more than 20 years ago. 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.

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