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We'd say, oh, well, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales or whatever. 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. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. And what we find is that if you teach people that forks go with men grammatically in a language, they start to think of forks as being more masculine. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. They are ways of seeing the world. They know which way is which. in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. It's never going to. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. If a transcript is available, youll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. And you've conducted experiments that explore how different conceptions of time in different languages shape the way we think about the world and shape the way we think about stories. You have to do it in order to fit into the culture and to speak the language. BORODITSKY: And when they were trying to act like Wednesday, they would act like a woman BORODITSKY: Which accords with grammatical gender in Russian. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. MCWHORTER: No, because LOL was an expression; it was a piece of language, and so you knew that its meaning was going to change. 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. 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. ROB LOWE: (As Chris Traeger) Dr. Harris, you are literally the meanest person I have ever met. See you next week. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading. 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. 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. Learn more. This week, in the final . BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. Language as it evolved was just talking to an extent that can be very hard for we literate people to imagine. What Makes Lawyers Happy? JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. To request permission, please send an email to [emailprotected]. 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. BORODITSKY: My family is Jewish, and we left as refugees. ), Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy, 2004. And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. So that's a measurement difference of 100 percent of performance. 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. 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. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). 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. 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. VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, by Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, Kevin Ochsner, Psychological Science, 2008. Those sorts things tend to start with women. You know, there's no left leg or right leg. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Languages are not just tools to describe the world. All of the likes and, like, literallies (ph) might sometimes grate on your nerves, but John McWhorter says the problem might be with you, not with the way other people speak. That is the direction of writing in Hebrew and Arabic, going from right to left. And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. That's because change is hard. But if you ask bilinguals, who have learned two languages and now they know that some genders disagree across the two languages, they're much less likely to say that it's because chairs are intrinsically masculine. 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. As soon as you move the leg, it becomes a different leg. If you're like most people, you probably abandoned those resolutions within a few weeks. 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. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. Because it was. 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. Thank you! I'm . That hadn't started then. It is the very fabric, the very core of your experience. We recommend movies or books to a friend. 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. BORODITSKY: I had this wonderful opportunity to work with my colleague Alice Gaby in this community called Pormpuraaw in - on Cape York. 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: It took just one week of living in Japan for Jennifer to pick up an important new term. 00:51:58 - We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. I think that the tone that many people use when they're complaining that somebody says Billy and me went to the store is a little bit incommensurate with the significance of the issue. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). If you're just joining us, I'm talking to John McWhorter. And there are all kinds of interesting, useful, eye-opening ideas that exist in all of the world's languages. 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. Shankar Vedantam, host of the popular podcast "Hidden Brain" has been reporting on human behavior for decades. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. 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. It's inherent. Perspectives on the Situation by Harry T. Reis, and John G. Holmes, in The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012. And dead languages never change, and some of us might prefer those. I saw this bird's-eye view, and I was this little red dot. The dictionary says both uses are correct. MCWHORTER: Oh, yeah, I'm a human being. 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. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Speaking foreign language). You're not going to do trigonometry. 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. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. LERA BORODITSKY: The categorization that language provides to you becomes real - becomes psychologically real. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. And it irritates people, but there's a different way of seeing literally. FEB 27, 2023; Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button . Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. So - but if I understand correctly, I would be completely at sea if I visited this aboriginal community in Australia because I have often absolutely no idea where I am or where I'm going. Writing has come along relatively recently. So for example, for English speakers - people who read from left to right - time tends to flow from left to right. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: (Speaking foreign language). 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Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. 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. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. out. He. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. It's not something that you typically go out trying to do intentionally. And so for example, if the word chair is masculine in your language, why is that? MCWHORTER: Those are called contronyms, and literally has become a new contronym. And it sounds a little bit abrupt and grabby like you're going to get something instead of being given. 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? VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS), by Harry T. Reis et. 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. Whats going on here? And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it. BORODITSKY: Yeah. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. And the answer should be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you? But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. We lobby a neighbor to vote for our favored political candidate. 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #8: (Speaking Italian). Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #16: Not figuratively, it's literally MCWHORTER: Yeah. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. What we think of today as a word undergoing some odd development or people using some new construction is exactly how Latin turned into French. We call this language Gumbuzi. Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. 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?

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