We also look at how. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). Transcript The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? Language was talk. BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. 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. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. 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. This is a database with millions of art images. VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). BORODITSKY: The way to say my name properly in Russian is (speaking foreign language), so I don't make people say that. 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. So I think that nobody would say that they don't think language should change.
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When we come back, I'm going to ask you about why languages change and whether there are hidden rules that shape why some words are more likely to evolve than others. There was no such thing as looking up what it originally meant. If you're just joining us, I'm talking to John McWhorter. It should just be, here is the natural way, then there's some things that you're supposed to do in public because that's the way it is, whether it's fair or not. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9rd1djMGxoZg==, open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh. And I don't think any of us are thinking that it's a shame that we're not using the language of Beowulf. Now, many people hear that and they think, well, that's no good because now literally can mean its opposite. And they suggest that differences across languages do, in fact, predict some of these measures of gender equality across countries. VEDANTAM: I asked Lera how describing the word chair or the word bridge as masculine or feminine changes the way that speakers of different languages think about those concepts. And we teach them, for example, to say that bridges and apples and all kinds of other things have the same prefix as women. So you may start with moving your southwest leg in, but then you have to move your northeast leg out. 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. 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. And so language changed just like the clouds in the sky. Thank you! And we're all going to have feelings like that.
In The Air We Breathe : NPR 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. al, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004. VEDANTAM: One of the points you make in the book of course is that the evolution of words and their meanings is what gives us this flowering of hundreds or thousands of languages. 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. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. 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. We love the idea of Hidden Brain helping to spark discussions in your community. In The Air We Breathe . And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice. VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. 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?
Persuasion: Part 1 - Transcripts She once visited an aboriginal community in northern Australia and found the language they spoke forced her mind to work in new ways. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? Let's start with the word literally. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. 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? And as soon as I saw that happen, I thought, oh, this makes it so much easier. And they have correlated this with gender features in the language, just like the ones you were talking about. 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. 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. Writing has come along relatively recently. And after listening to you, I realize I might have to finally give in. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #11: (Speaking Russian). So the question for us has been, how do we build these ideas?
5.3 Misbehaving Hidden Brain NPR - HOURLY NEWS DONATE < Predictably It's as if you saw a person - I'm not going to say at 4 because then the person is growing up, and if I use that analogy then it seems like I'm saying that language grows up or it moves toward something or it develops. If you dont see any jobs posted there, feel free to send your resume and cover letter to [emailprotected] and well keep your materials on hand for future openings on the show.
Growing up, I understood this word to mean for a very short time, as in John McWhorter was momentarily surprised. Well never sell your personal information. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. MCWHORTER: Those are called contronyms, and literally has become a new contronym. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. And you say that dictionaries in some ways paint an unrealistic portrait of a language. in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends.
You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind | Hidden Brain Media Language as it evolved was just talking to an extent that can be very hard for we literate people to imagine. 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. 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. something, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. 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? Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. And the answer should be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you? In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. But somehow they've managed, not just by randomly bumping into each other. We use a lot of music on the show! When language was like that, of course it changed a lot - fast - because once you said it, it was gone. Official Website Airs on: SUN 7pm-8pm 55:27 Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button Feb 27 Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. FDA blocks human trials for Neuralink brain implants. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and 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.
Hidden Brain: You, But Better on Apple Podcasts 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. You can support Hidden Brain indirectly by giving to your local NPR station, or you can provide direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page. He says there are things we can do to make sure our choices align with our deepest values. Learn more. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. 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. So if the word for death was masculine in your language, you were likely to paint death as a man. VEDANTAM: One of the things I found really interesting is that the evolution of words and language is constant. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore how unconscious bias can infect a culture and how a police shooting may say as much about a community as it does about individuals. You can run experiments in a lab or survey people on the street. Please note that your continued use of the RadioPublic services following the posting of such changes will be deemed an acceptance of this update. VEDANTAM: So this begs the question, if you were to put languages on something of a spectrum, where you have, you know, languages like Spanish or Hindi where nouns are gendered and languages like English where many nouns are not gendered but pronouns are gendered, and on the other end of the spectrum, you have languages like Finnish or Persian where you can have a conversation about someone without actually mentioning their gender, it would seem surprising if this did not translate, at some level, into the way people thought about gender in their daily activities, in terms of thinking about maybe even who can do what in the workplace. Are the spoken origins of language one reason that words so often seem to be on the move? 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. Whats going on here? She shows how our conversational styles can cause We all know casual sex isn't about love. You have to do it in order to fit into the culture and to speak the language. That is the direction of writing in Hebrew and Arabic, going from right to left. Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. VEDANTAM: Lera now tries to understand languages spoken all over the world. And so somebody will say, well, who was it who you thought was going to give you this present? I've always found that a very grating way to ask for something at a store. It's just how I feel. VEDANTAM: I understand there's been some work looking at children and that children who speak certain languages are actually quicker to identify gender and their own gender than children who are learning other languages in other cultures. Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking foreign language). We recommend movies or books to a friend. You couldn't have predicted this I know-uh move-uh (ph). 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. 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. The categorization that language provides to you becomes real, becomes psychologically real.
Hidden Brain on RadioPublic My Unsung Hero: A belated thank you : NPR Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy. How does that sound now? VEDANTAM: It took just one week of living in Japan for Jennifer to pick up an important new term. 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. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. 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. 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? And he started by asking Russian-speaking students to personify days of the week. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. 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. So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. He's also the author of the book, "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).".
Google Podcasts - hidden brain SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST:This is HIDDEN BRAIN. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. 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.
Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose - Google Podcasts 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, 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. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. Podcasters use the RadioPublic listener relationship platform to build lasting connections with fans. We don't want to be like that. Women under about 30 in the United States, when they're excited or they're trying to underline a point, putting uh at the end of things. BORODITSKY: My family is Jewish, and we left as refugees. You know, endings are going to tend to drop off. 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. But what if there's a whole category of people in your life whose impact is overlooked? this is hidden brain I'm Shankar Vedantam in the classic TV series Star Trek Mister Spock has a foolproof technique for accurately reading the thoughts and feelings of others the Vulcan mind I am Spock you James our minds are moving closer most most here are kind of hard we have new technology that gives us direct access to the minds of others so UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #8: (Speaking Italian). 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. You know, it's Lady Liberty and Lady Justice. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #10: (Speaking Russian). There are many scholars who would say, look, yes, you do see small differences between speakers of different languages, but these differences are not really significant; they're really small. Special thanks to Adam Cole, who wrote and performed our rendition of "The Hokey Pokey." There are signs it's getting even harder. MCWHORTER: No, because LOL was an expression; it was a piece of language, and so you knew that its meaning was going to change. So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. But actually, that's exactly how people in those communities come to stay oriented - is that they learn it, (laughter) right? It's never happened. Those sorts things tend to start with women. Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, by Kennon M. Sheldon, 2022. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? Hidden Brain Feb 23, 2023 Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. It's never going to. out. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. Lera said there's still a lot of research to be done on this.
Hidden Brain | Hidden Brain Media Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. 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). So when the perfect woman started writing him letters, it seemed too good to be true. VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. And they asked me all kinds of questions about them. podcast pages. In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. I'm shankar Vedantam in the 2002 rom com. The dictionary says both uses are correct. Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? How come you aren't exactly the way you were 10 years ago? Additional Resources Book: Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done.