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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. 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. As you're going about your day, you likely interact with family, friends and coworkers. VEDANTAM: This episode of HIDDEN BRAIN was produced by Rhaina Cohen, Maggie Penman and Thomas Lu with help from Renee Klahr, Jenny Schmidt, Parth Shah and Chloe Connelly. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. This is NPR. And, I mean, really, it sounds exactly like that. 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. Physicist Richard Feynman once said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." One way we fool ourselves is by imagining we know more than we do; we think we are experts. Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. BORODITSKY: I had this wonderful opportunity to work with my colleague Alice Gaby in this community called Pormpuraaw in - on Cape York. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Perceived Partner Responsiveness as an Organizing Construct in the Study of Intimacy and Closeness, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. Later things are on the right. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. We also look at how. Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. 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. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, by Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, Kevin Ochsner, Psychological Science, 2008. Flight attendant Steven Slater slides from a plane after quitting. You're not going to do trigonometry. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. 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. We couldnt survive without the many public radio stations that support our show and they cant survive without you. Writing has come along relatively recently. MCWHORTER: You could have fun doing such a thing. 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. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. 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. Imagine this. So these speakers have internalized this idea from their language, and they believe that it's right. I'm Shankar Vedantam. BORODITSKY: The way to say my name properly in Russian is (speaking foreign language), so I don't make people say that. Whats going on here? This week, in the second installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Todd Kashdan looks at the relationship between distress and happiness, and ho, Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. al, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2008. And what he noticed was that when people were trying to act like Monday, they would act like a man. You also see huge differences in other domains like number. Why researchers should think real-world: A conceptual rationale, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life, 2012. So for example, if Sam grabbed a hammer and struck the flute in anger, that would be one description, like, Sam broke the flute. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. But if you seed a watermelon, nobody assumes that you're taking seeds and putting them in the watermelon, you're taking them out. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. All episodes of Hidden Brain - Chartable Hidden Brain Episodes Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. 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. The only question was in which way. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes. June 20, 2020 This week on Hidden Brain, research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Dont Know, Refusing to Apologize can have Psychological Benefits, The Effects of Conflict Types, Dimensions, and Emergent States on Group Outcomes, Social Functionalist Frameworks for Judgment and Choice: Intuitive Politicians, Theologians, and Prosecutors, Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams, The Effective Negotiator Part 1: The Behavior of Successful Negotiators, The Effective Negotiator Part 2: Planning for Negotiations, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. BORODITSKY: I spoke really terrible Indonesian at the time, so I was trying to practice. What Makes Lawyers Happy? 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. 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: Our conversation made me wonder about what this means on a larger scale. We'll be back momentarily. 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. And I did that. It's not something that you typically go out trying to do intentionally. 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. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. VEDANTAM: It took just one week of living in Japan for Jennifer to pick up an important new term. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. VEDANTAM: Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. MCWHORTER: Exactly. 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? Each generation hears things and interprets things slightly differently from the previous one. Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. Today's episode was the first in our You 2.0 series, which runs all this month. But might we allow that there's probably a part of all human beings that wants to look down on somebody else. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. 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. Just saying hello was difficult. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #10: (Speaking Russian). It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. 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. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? And a girl goes in this pile. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #6: (Speaking foreign language). 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. Well, that's an incredibly large set of things, so that's a very broad effect of language. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. What a cynical thing to say, but that doesn't mean that it might not be true. So it's easy to think, oh, I could imagine someone without thinking explicitly about what they're wearing. And they suggest that differences across languages do, in fact, predict some of these measures of gender equality across countries. But the reason that it seems so elusive is because we don't really think about the, quote, unquote, "meaning" of things like our conversation-easing laughter. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. Transcript The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. They shape our place in it. You can't touch time. 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. The Effects of Conflict Types, Dimensions, and Emergent States on Group Outcomes, by Karen Jehn et. It's just how I feel. This takes kids a little while to figure out, and he had all kinds of clever ways to ask these questions. 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. BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. 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. Copyright 2023 Steno. That's what it's all about. VEDANTAM: So I want to talk about a debate that's raged in your field for many years. You're not going to do any of the things that are seen as a foundation of our technological society. 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. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. 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. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. (Speaking Japanese). 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. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. It has to do with the word momentarily. And we're all going to have feelings like that. You couldn't have predicted this I know-uh move-uh (ph). One study that I love is a study that asked monolingual speakers of Italian and German and also bilingual speakers of Italian and German to give reasons for why things are the grammatical genders that they are. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Additional Resources Book: Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. So one possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside - right? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Speaking foreign language). 4.62. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. And if it was feminine, then you're likely to paint death as a woman. Growing up, I understood this word to mean for a very short time, as in John McWhorter was momentarily surprised. 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. 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. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? 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. And you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it out. And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? And as soon as I saw that happen, I thought, oh, this makes it so much easier. Look at it. 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. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. 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. Accuracy and availability may vary. Hidden Brain. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-being: The Self-Concordance Model, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Andrew J. Elliot, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? 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 But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. If you're a monolingual speaker of one of these languages, you're very likely to say that the word chair is masculine because chairs are, in fact, masculine, right? - so one skull but two different minds, and you shift from one to the other. al, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004. But what if it's not even about lust? Stay with us. VEDANTAM: I understand that there's also been studies looking at how artists who speak different languages might paint differently depending on how their languages categorize, you know, concepts like a mountain or death. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. 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