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My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. That is the most random thing. Copyright 2018 NPR. VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. These relationships can help you feel cared for and connected. We love the idea of Hidden Brain helping to spark discussions in your community. And if you can enjoy it as a parade instead of wondering why people keep walking instead of just sitting on chairs and blowing on their tubas and not moving, then you have more fun. VEDANTAM: I understand that if you're in a picnic with someone from this community and you notice an ant climbing up someone's left leg, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to tell that person, look, there's an ant on your left leg. But also, I started wondering, is it possible that my friend here was imagining a person without a gender for this whole time that we've been talking about them, right? GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. Opening scene of Lady Bird Flight attendant Steven Slater slides from a plane after quitting Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Not without written permission. 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. Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9rd1djMGxoZg==, open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh. Copyright 2023 Steno. I think it's a really fascinating question for future research. (Speaking Japanese). Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. And then question 21 was, is this person a man or a woman? He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . Mistakes and errors are what turned Latin into French. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. Going the Distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The Vital Role of Identified Motivation, by Kennon M. Sheldon, Motivation Science, 2020. al (Eds. 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. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. Athletic Scholarships are Negatively Associated with Intrinsic Motivation for Sports, Even Decades Later: Evidence for Long-Term Undermining, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Arlen C. Moller, Motivation Science, 2020. 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. VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. It seems kind of elliptical, like, would it be possible that I obtained? 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. MCWHORTER: Those are called contronyms, and literally has become a new contronym. And you say that dictionaries in some ways paint an unrealistic portrait of a language. VEDANTAM: One of the things I found really interesting is that the evolution of words and language is constant. If you missed it, Think back to the last time someone convinced you to do something you didn't want to do, or to spend money you didn't want to spend. VEDANTAM: In the English-speaking world, she goes by Lera Boroditsky. 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. They often feel angry about it, and you think this anger is actually telling. al, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2008. We recommend movies or books to a friend. And they have correlated this with gender features in the language, just like the ones you were talking about. But I think that we should learn not to listen to people using natural language as committing errors because there's no such thing as making a mistake in your language if a critical mass of other people speaking your language are doing the same thing. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. As soon as you move the leg, it becomes a different leg. 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? Thank you! 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: Thank you so much for having me. Toula and Ian's different backgrounds become apparent on one of their very first dates. So I just think that it's something we need to check ourselves for. So LOL was an internet abbreviation meaning laugh out loud or laughing out loud, but LOL in common usage today doesn't necessarily mean hysterical laughter. This is HIDDEN BRAIN. What techniques did that person use to persuade you? 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. That is the direction of writing in Hebrew and Arabic, going from right to left. 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. There's been a little bit of research from economists actually looking at this. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? MCWHORTER: You could have fun doing such a thing. If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. That's because change is hard. And I thought, wow, first of all, it would be almost impossible to have a conversation like that in English where you hadn't already revealed the gender of the person because you have to use he or she. For example, he might take a bunch of pictures of boys and girls and sort them and say, OK, this is a boy. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe watching Netflix or something. I'm Shankar Vedanta. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS), by Harry T. Reis et. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where. It's never going to. Imagine how we would sound to them if they could hear us. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. So the word for the is different for women than for men, and it's also different for forks versus spoons and things like that. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) If you're so upset about it, maybe you can think of a way to help her. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Right. But I understand that in Spanish, this would come out quite differently. This is Hidden Brain. native tongue without even thinking about it. It's how we think about anything that's abstract, that's beyond our physical senses. And this is NPR. Lera said there's still a lot of research to be done on this. And if you don't have a word for exactly seven, it actually becomes very, very hard to keep track of exactly seven. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. And we teach them, for example, to say that bridges and apples and all kinds of other things have the same prefix as women. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. BORODITSKY: I spoke really terrible Indonesian at the time, so I was trying to practice. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. You can search for the episode or browse all episodes on our Archive Page. 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 what he noticed was that when people were trying to act like Monday, they would act like a man. Accuracy and availability may vary. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about 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. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. He didn't like that people were shortening the words. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). And then if you are going to be that elliptical, why use the casual word get? Subscribe: iOS | Android | Spotify | RSS | Amazon | Stitcher Latest Episodes: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button 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? 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. So it's easy to think, oh, I could imagine someone without thinking explicitly about what they're wearing. We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. I'm Shankar Vedantam. And nobody wishes that we hadn't developed our modern languages today from the ancient versions. And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice. BORODITSKY: And when they were trying to act like Wednesday, they would act like a woman BORODITSKY: Which accords with grammatical gender in Russian. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? 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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. We don't want to be like that. So for example, if Sam grabbed a hammer and struck the flute in anger, that would be one description, like, Sam broke the flute. Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. MCWHORTER: No, because LOL was an expression; it was a piece of language, and so you knew that its meaning was going to change. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. But it's a lovely example of how language can guide you to discover something about the world that might take you longer to discover if you didn't have that information in language. Today's episode was the first in our You 2.0 series, which runs all this month. What a cynical thing to say, but that doesn't mean that it might not be true. This week, in the final . 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. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? It is the very fabric, the very core of your experience. 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. But things can be important not just because they're big. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. What do you do for christmas with your family? Maybe it's even less than a hundred 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. Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. So it's, VEDANTAM: The moment she heard it, Jennifer realized mendokusai was incredibly. It has to do with the word momentarily. Special thanks to Adam Cole, who wrote and performed our rendition of "The Hokey Pokey." Languages are not just tools. But if they were sitting facing north, they would lay out the story from right to left. But, you know, John, something gnaws at me every time I hear the word used wrong. BORODITSKY: One thing that we've noticed is this idea of time, of course, is very highly constructed by our minds and our brains. She shows how our conversational styles can cause We all know casual sex isn't about love. 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. 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. So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004. 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. So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. al, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004. 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. 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. MCWHORTER: Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? 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. Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. MCWHORTER: Oh, yeah, I'm a human being. So you can't know how the words are going to come out, but you can take good guesses.

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