We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Shelly. 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. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #6: (Speaking foreign language). I had this cool experience when I was there. MCWHORTER: Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. 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 week, we launch the first of a two-part mini-series on the scie, If you think about the people in your life, it's likely that they share a lot in common with you. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004. 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. But then you start writing things down and you're in a whole new land because once things are sitting there written on that piece of paper, there's that illusion. And there are consequences for how people think about events, what they notice when they see accidents. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST:This is HIDDEN BRAIN. MCWHORTER: It's a matter of fashion, pure and simple. But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? Toward Understanding Understanding:The Importance of Feeling Understood in Relationships, by Harry Reis, Edward P. Lemay Jr, and Catrin Finkenauer, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2017. 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. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. 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. Imagine this. But it's so hard to feel that partly because our brains are on writing, as I say in the book. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. In The Air We Breathe . He didn't like that people were shortening the words. And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. 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. They are ways of seeing the world. For example, when we started talking about navigation, that's an example where a 5-year-old in a culture that uses words like north, south, east and west can point southeast without hesitation. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. The dictionary says both uses are correct. BORODITSKY: I spoke really terrible Indonesian at the time, so I was trying to practice. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. 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. So you can't see time. Transcript - How language shapes the way we think by Lera Boroditsky.docx, The Singapore Quality Award requires organisations to show outstanding results, The following lots of Commodity Z were available for sale during the year, b The authors identify 5 types of misinformation in the abstract but discuss 7, 17 Chow N Asian value and aged care Geriatr Gerontol Int 20044521 5 18 Chow NWS, Writing Results and Discussion Example.docx, A 6 month old infant weighing 15 lb is admitted with a diagnosis of dehydration, ng_Question_-_Assessment_1_-_Proposing_Evidence-Based_Change.doc, The Social Security checks the Government sends to grandmothers are considered A, 03 If a covered member participates on the clients attest engagement or is an, AURETR143 Student Assessment - Theory v1.1.docx. And, of course, you always have to wonder, well, could it be that speakers of these different languages are actually seeing different kinds of bridges? Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. 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. So we did an analysis of images in Artstor. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. 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. Language was talk. 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. How else would you do it? But I understand that in Spanish, this would come out quite differently. In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Speaking foreign language). If you prefer to listen through a podcast app, here are links to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? So you might say, there's an ant on your northwest leg. For example, if you take seeds and put them in the ground, that's one thing. But if I give that same story to a Hebrew or an Arabic speaker, they would organize it from right to left. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? The fun example I give my students is imagine playing the hokey pokey in a language like this. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. VEDANTAM: Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. There's a way of speaking right. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. That's because change is hard. Well never sell your personal information. A brief history of relationship research in social psychology, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of the History of Social Psychology, 2011. But actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. But if they were sitting facing north, they would lay out the story from right to left. Transcript The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. That's the way words are, too. I'm Shankar Vedantam. VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. I think that it's better to think of language as a parade that either you're watching, or frankly, that you're in, especially because the people are never going to stand still. Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Stay with us. This is HIDDEN BRAIN. If you still cant find the episode, try looking through our most recent shows on our homepage. And if you teach them that forks go with women, they start to think that forks are more feminine. VEDANTAM: Our conversation made me wonder about what this means on a larger scale. But she told me a story about a conversation she had with a native speaker of Indonesian. Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. So LOL starts out as meaning hardy-har-har (ph), but then it becomes something more abstract. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. See you next week. Imagine you meet somebody, they're 39 and you take their picture. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking foreign language). (LAUGHTER) VEDANTAM: In the English-speaking world, she goes by Lera Boroditsky. And I don't think any of us are thinking that it's a shame that we're not using the language of Beowulf. What a cynical thing to say, but that doesn't mean that it might not be true. Subscribe: iOS | Android | Spotify | RSS | Amazon | Stitcher Latest Episodes: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about language. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #10: (Speaking Russian). It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. It seems kind of elliptical, like, would it be possible that I obtained? That's how much cultural heritage is lost. They are ways of seeing the world. BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. 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. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. And they have correlated this with gender features in the language, just like the ones you were talking about. There was no such thing as looking up what it originally meant. We couldnt survive without the many public radio stations that support our show and they cant survive without you. Stay with us. The size of this effect really quite surprised me because I would have thought at the outset that, you know, artists are these iconoclasts. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. What Do You Do When Things Go Right? podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9rd1djMGxoZg==, open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh. ADAM COLE, BYLINE: (Singing) You put your southwest leg in, and you shake it all about. And they said, well, of course. It's exactly how old English turned into modern English. GEACONE-CRUZ: It's a Sunday afternoon, and it's raining outside. You can't touch time. And so for example, if the word chair is masculine in your language, why is that? Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it. 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? Let's start with the word literally. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. And to our surprise, 78 percent of the time, we could predict the gender of the personification based on the grammatical gender of the noun in the artist's native language. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. 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. If you're just joining us, I'm talking to John McWhorter. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). BORODITSKY: And when they were trying to act like Wednesday, they would act like a woman BORODITSKY: Which accords with grammatical gender in Russian. It's never happened. That is the most random thing. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: (Speaking foreign language).