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It's how we think about anything that's abstract, that's beyond our physical senses. This week, in the fourth and final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes . I'm Shankar Vedantam, and you're listening to HIDDEN BRAIN. VEDANTAM: Our conversation made me wonder about what this means on a larger scale. Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Relationships 2.0: What Makes Relationships Thrive | Hidden Brain Media The size of this effect really quite surprised me because I would have thought at the outset that, you know, artists are these iconoclasts. And, I mean, really, it sounds exactly like that. You know, lots of people blow off steam about something they think is wrong, but very few people are willing to get involved and do something about it. And they asked me all kinds of questions about them. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. 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. I'm Shankar Vedantam. MCWHORTER: Thank you for having me, Shankar. 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 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. 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 All episodes of Hidden Brain - Chartable How do certain memes go viral? Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, by Kennon M. Sheldon, 2022. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading. Copyright 2023 Steno. 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. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. I had this cool experience when I was there. 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. If you, grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your. 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. * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. We'll be back momentarily. In The Air We Breathe . Hidden Brain: The Easiest Person to Fool on Apple Podcasts 4.62. BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. Hidden Brain : NPR I said, you know, this weird thing happened. That's how much cultural heritage is lost. Dictionaries are wonderful things, but they create an illusion that there's such thing as a language that stands still, when really it's the nature of human language to change. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. 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. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). VEDANTAM: Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. 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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. It's too high. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. BORODITSKY: I spoke really terrible Indonesian at the time, so I was trying to practice. And you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it out. VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? 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? VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. But if I give that same story to a Hebrew or an Arabic speaker, they would organize it from right to left. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. Laughter: The Best Medicine | Hidden Brain : NPR 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. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? Whats going on here? They are ways of seeing the world. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Shelly. In this favorite episode from 2021, Cornell University psychologist Anthony Burrow explains why purpose isnt something to be found its somethi, It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. 437 Episodes Produced by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Website. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? 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. What Do You Do When Things Go Right? 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This week, in the final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes what happens when we stop to sav, Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. The best Podcast API to search all podcasts and episodes. Refusing to Apologize can have Psychological Benefits, by Tyler Okimoto, Michael Wenzel and Kyli Hedrick, European Journal of Social Psychology, 2013. Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts are Influenced by Self-Esteem and Relationship Threat, by Shannon M. Smith & Harry Reis, Personal Relationships, 2012. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. VEDANTAM: Lera now tries to understand languages spoken all over the world. 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. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. out. Could this affect the way, you know, sexism, conscious or unconscious, operates in our world? And, I mean, just in terms of even sounds changing and the way that you put words together changing bit by bit, and there's never been a language that didn't do that. I've always found that a very grating way to ask for something at a store. by Harry T. Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. 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. 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. Hidden Brain | Hidden Brain Media They're more likely to see through this little game that language has played on them. 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. So for example, grammatical gender - because grammatical gender applies to all nouns in your language, that means that language is shaping the way you think about everything that can be named by a noun. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. So LOL starts out as meaning hardy-har-har (ph), but then it becomes something more abstract. Which pile do you go in, right? The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. You couldn't have predicted this I know-uh move-uh (ph). So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. HIDDEN BRAIN < Lost in Translation: January 29, 20189:00 PM ET VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. Whats going on here? Accuracy and availability may vary. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page, sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain. This is Hidden Brain. But might we allow that there's probably a part of all human beings that wants to look down on somebody else. But if he just bumped into the table, and it happened to fall off the table and break, and it was an accident, then you might be more likely to say, the flute broke, or the flute broke itself, or it so happened to Sam that the flute broke. It's never going to. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. 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. 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. But, if you dig a little deeper, you may find that they share much more: they might make the same amount of money as you, or share the, We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. 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. 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 it really is an illusion that what language is, is something that sits still. 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. Transcript The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. It's not something that you typically go out trying to do intentionally. Newsletter: 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. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. Hidden Brain - Google Podcasts How to Foster Perceived Partner Responsiveness: High-Quality LIstening is Key, Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS), Toward Understanding Understanding:The Importance of Feeling Understood in Relationships, Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts are Influenced by Self-Esteem and Relationship Threat, Perceived Partner Responsiveness Minimizes Defensive Reactions to Failure, Assessing the Seeds of Relationship Decay: Using Implicit Evaluations to Detect the Early Stages of Disillusionment. So the question for us has been, how do we build these ideas? It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. They give us a sense that the meanings of words are fixed, when in fact they're not. 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. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Hidden Brain on RadioPublic Hidden Brain (podcast) - Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - Listen Notes Not without written permission. 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. native tongue without even thinking about it. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. How so? 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. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. 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. 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. And it irritates people, but there's a different way of seeing literally. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. I just don't want to do it. Hidden Brain Feb 23, 2023 Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. 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. Imagine this. Hidden Brain - Transcripts So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. But what we should teach is not that the good way is logical and the way that you're comfortable doing it is illogical. Let's start with the word literally. BORODITSKY: One thing that we've noticed is this idea of time, of course, is very highly constructed by our minds and our brains. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation.

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