How To Breathe Correctly For Optimal Health, Mood, Learning VEDANTAM: John McWhorter, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. So we've done a lot of studies looking at how speakers of Spanish and German and Russian actually think about objects that have opposite grammatical genders. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. Newer episodes are unlikely to have a transcript as it takes us a few weeks to process and edit each transcript. But if they were sitting facing north, they would lay out the story from right to left. He says there are things we can do to make sure our choices align with our deepest values. The size of this effect really quite surprised me because I would have thought at the outset that, you know, artists are these iconoclasts. So it's mendokusai. VEDANTAM: One of the things I found really interesting is that the evolution of words and language is constant. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? They're more likely to see through this little game that language has played on them. People do need to be taught what the socially acceptable forms are. And I don't think any of us are thinking that it's a shame that we're not using the language of Beowulf. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004. But it turns out humans can stay oriented really, really well, provided that their language and culture requires them to keep track of this information. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. Who Do You Want To Be? - Hidden Brain (pdcast) | Listen Notes And then when I turned, this little window stayed locked on the landscape, but it turned in my mind's eye. If you're just joining us, I'm talking to John McWhorter. But as Bob Cialdini set out to discover the keys to influence and persuasion, he decided to follow the instincts of his childhood. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. But somehow they've managed, not just by randomly bumping into each other. And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. But it's exactly like - it was maybe about 20 years ago that somebody - a girlfriend I had told me that if I wore pants that had little vertical pleats up near the waist, then I was conveying that I was kind of past it. 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. He didn't like that people were shortening the words. And if the word bridge is masculine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are strong and long and towering - these kind of more stereotypically masculine words. 00:51:58 - We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. Take the word bridge - if it's feminine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are beautiful and elegant. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Now I can stay oriented. You would give a different description to mark that it was not intentional. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. BORODITSKY: And when they were trying to act like Wednesday, they would act like a woman BORODITSKY: Which accords with grammatical gender in Russian. Growing up, I understood this word to mean for a very short time, as in John McWhorter was momentarily surprised. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Speaking foreign language). (LAUGHTER) VEDANTAM: In the English-speaking world, she goes by Lera Boroditsky. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. 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. And one thing that we've noticed is that around the world, people rely on space to organize time. out. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #11: (Speaking Russian). Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? So we did an analysis of images in Artstor. We recommend movies or books to a friend. 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. That's what it's all about. 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. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. It's part of a general running indication that everything's OK between you and the other person, just like one's expected to smile a little bit in most interactions. So I think that nobody would say that they don't think language should change. My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. What techniques did that person use to persuade you? But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. Just saying hello was difficult. MCWHORTER: Yes, that's exactly true. They are ways of seeing the world. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness Why do some companies become household names, while others flame out? But if you prefer life - the unpredictability of life - then living language in many ways are much more fun. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). 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. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. So it's easy to think, oh, I could imagine someone without thinking explicitly about what they're wearing. BORODITSKY: My family is Jewish, and we left as refugees. 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In this favorite 2021 episode, psychologistAdam Grantpushes back against the benefits of certainty, and describes the magic that unfolds when we challenge our own deeply-held beliefs. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9rd1djMGxoZg==, open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh. All rights reserved. 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. VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. I'm Shankar Vedantam. It's never going to. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) If you're so upset about it, maybe you can think of a way to help her. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, by Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, Kevin Ochsner, Psychological Science, 2008. Hidden Brain - Google Podcasts BORODITSKY: Yeah. 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. Hidden Brain. 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 Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? And I would really guess that in a few decades men will be doing it, too. This week, in the second installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Todd Kashdan looks at the relationship between distress and happiness, and how to keep difficult emotions from sabotaging our wellbeing. This is Hidden Brain. And if they were facing east, they would make the cards come toward them, toward the body. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. The dictionary says both uses are correct. There was no such thing as looking up what it originally meant. ADAM COLE, BYLINE: (Singing) You put your southwest leg in, and you shake it all about. Whats going on here? This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. Languages are not just tools to describe the world. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. Maybe it's, even less than 100 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, 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. 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 This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. It has to do with the word momentarily. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. So earlier things are on the left. Laughter: The Best Medicine | Hidden Brain : NPR 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. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes. You can run experiments in a lab or survey people on the street. This takes kids a little while to figure out, and he had all kinds of clever ways to ask these questions. 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 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. Who Do You Want To Be? | Hidden Brain Media Elon Musk's brain chips, starvation in Somalia and Greek anguish They're supposed to be painting something very personal. In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. 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. Hidden Brain | Hidden Brain Media 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? 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. 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 these speakers have internalized this idea from their language, and they believe that it's right. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. 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. So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. Imagine this. 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. These relationships can help you feel cared for and connected. ), Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy, 2004. It's too high. You can find all Hidden Brain episodes on our website. Hidden Brain. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about language. It's never happened. 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. 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. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. to describe the world. Well, that's an incredibly large set of things, so that's a very broad effect of language. 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? They shape our place in it. But, in fact, they were reflecting this little quirk of grammar, this little quirk of their language and in some cases, you know, carving those quirks of grammar into stone because when you look at statues that we have around - of liberty and justice and things like this - they have gender. Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button. 437 Episodes Produced by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Website. But does a person who says that really deserve the kind of sneering condemnation that you often see? Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. 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. Languages are not just tools. 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. L. Gable, et. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. native tongue without even thinking about it. And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it. So I think it's something that is quite easy for humans to learn if you just have a reason to want to do it. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Could this affect the way, you know, sexism, conscious or unconscious, operates in our world? They know which way is which. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through. You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. As someone who works in media, I often find that people who can write well are often people who know how to think well, so I often equate clarity of writing with clarity of thought. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). Let's start with the word literally. This is NPR. Hidden Brain 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. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. Copyright 2023 Steno. That is exactly why you should say fewer books instead of less books in some situations and, yes, Billy and I went to the store rather than the perfectly natural Billy and me went to the store. He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . 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. 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. This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th 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.
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