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It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, by Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, Kevin Ochsner, Psychological Science, 2008. MCWHORTER: Yeah. Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. Imagine this. The Effective Negotiator Part 1: The Behavior of Successful Negotiators and The Effective Negotiator Part 2: Planning for Negotiations, by Neil Rackham and John Carlisle, Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978. So if the word for death was masculine in your language, you were likely to paint death as a man. But I don't think that it's always clear to us that language has to change in that things are going to come in that we're going to hear as intrusions or as irritating or as mistakes, despite the fact that that's how you get from, say, old Persian to modern Persian. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Writing has come along relatively recently. This is a database with millions of art images. But then you start writing things down and you're in a whole new land because once things are sitting there written on that piece of paper, there's that illusion. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. 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. It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: (Speaking foreign language). And it ended up becoming less a direct reflection of hearty laughter than an indication of the kind of almost subconscious laughter that we do in any kind of conversation that's meant as friendly. MCWHORTER: Oh, yeah, I'm a human being. And so somebody says something literally, somebody takes a point literally. BORODITSKY: It's certainly possible. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts 51 min You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose Hidden Brain Social Sciences Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. 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. MCWHORTER: No, because LOL was an expression; it was a piece of language, and so you knew that its meaning was going to change. Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? VEDANTAM: Lera now tries to understand languages spoken all over the world. And, I mean, just in terms of even sounds changing and the way that you put words together changing bit by bit, and there's never been a language that didn't do that. He. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) If you're so upset about it, maybe you can think of a way to help her. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. They can be small differences but important in other ways. It's how we think about anything that's abstract, that's beyond our physical senses. It might irritate you slightly to hear somebody say something like, I need less books instead of fewer books. There's not a bigger difference you could find than 100 percent of the measurement space. Growing up, I understood this word to mean for a very short time, as in John McWhorter was momentarily surprised. al (Eds. Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date. 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. I know-uh (ph) is there, or something along the lines of babe-uh (ph). Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. I'm Shankar Vedantam. 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? 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 I was telling this person about someone I knew back in America. And there are all kinds of interesting, useful, eye-opening ideas that exist in all of the world's languages. You-uh (ph). You can find all Hidden Brain episodes on our website. BORODITSKY: Yeah. Languages are not just tools. We use a lot of music on the show! BORODITSKY: I spoke really terrible Indonesian at the time, so I was trying to practice. VEDANTAM: Our conversation made me wonder about what this means on a larger scale. If a transcript is available, youll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. 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. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? 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? Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. 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? 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? Copyright 2023 Steno. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. 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? Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). 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? 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. 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(LAUGHTER) VEDANTAM: In the English-speaking world, she goes by Lera Boroditsky. Whats going on here? 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. Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. VEDANTAM: John McWhorter, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. But actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. So you may start with moving your southwest leg in, but then you have to move your northeast leg out. After claiming your Listen Notes podcast pages, you will be able to: Respond to listener comments on Listen Notes, Use speech-to-text techniques to transcribe your show and Whats going on here? Not without written permission. BORODITSKY: Yeah. podcast pages. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). I think language can certainly be a contributor into the complex system of our thinking about gender. 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. by Harry T. Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. 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. 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. 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 I don't think any of us are thinking that it's a shame that we're not using the language of Beowulf. 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. 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. Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. And it's not just about how we think about time. 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. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. So some languages don't have number words. Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. So for example, grammatical gender - because grammatical gender applies to all nouns in your language, that means that language is shaping the way you think about everything that can be named by a noun. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. 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? In this week's My Unsung Hero, Sarah Feldman thanks someone for their gift more than 20 years ago. But what we should teach is not that the good way is logical and the way that you're comfortable doing it is illogical. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. And I would really guess that in a few decades men will be doing it, too. But time doesn't have to flow with respect to the body. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). 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. And so I was trying to keep track of which way is which. We also look at how. Subscribe: iOS | Android | Spotify | RSS | Amazon | Stitcher Latest Episodes: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button So that's a measurement difference of 100 percent of performance. 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. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Shelly. If it is the first time you login, a new account will be created automatically. MCWHORTER: Yes, that's exactly true. So act like Monday. We'd say, oh, well, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales or whatever. It goes in this pile. 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. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. 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. But what if there's a whole category of people in your life whose impact is overlooked? But things can be important not just because they're big. Hidden Brain. Our team includes Laura Kwerel, Adhiti Bandlamudi and our supervising producer Tara Boyle. Each generation hears things and interprets things slightly differently from the previous one. I had this cool experience when I was there. You can't smell or taste time. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Speaking foreign language). And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. VEDANTAM: Languages orient us to the world. And one day, I was walking along, and I was just staring at the ground. BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. In this favorite 2021 episode, psychologist Adam Grant pushes back against the benefits of certainty, and describes the magic that unfolds when we challenge our own deeply-held beliefs. He's a defender of language on the move, but I wanted to know if there were things that irritated even him. The only question was in which way. 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. Well, that's an incredibly large set of things, so that's a very broad effect of language. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. VEDANTAM: If you have teenagers or work closely with young people, chances are you'll be mystified by their conversations or even annoyed. 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. It's never happened. 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: My guest today is - well, why don't I let her introduce herself? VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. And one thing that we've noticed is that around the world, people rely on space to organize time. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice. When she was 12, her family came to the United States from the Soviet Union. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading. So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page, sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. 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. 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. They shape our place in it. We call this language Gumbuzi. The Effects of Conflict Types, Dimensions, and Emergent States on Group Outcomes, by Karen Jehn et. It's never going to. 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. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. If a transcript is available, you'll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: (Speaking foreign language). 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. But what if it's not even about lust? But we have plenty of words like that in English where it doesn't bother us at all. And if you don't have a word for exactly seven, it actually becomes very, very hard to keep track of exactly seven. MCWHORTER: It's a matter of fashion, pure and simple. 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. 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? al, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2008. And very competent adults of our culture can't do that. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? You may also use the Hidden Brain name in invitations sent to a small group of personal contacts for such purposes as a listening club or discussion forum. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. out. 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. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. 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). 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. 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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