UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #9: (Speaking German). But does a person who says that really deserve the kind of sneering condemnation that you often see? I'm Shankar Vedantam. In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? BORODITSKY: And Russian is a language that has grammatical gender, and different days of the week have different genders for some reason. 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. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. This week, in the fourth and final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes . Imagine you meet somebody, they're 39 and you take their picture. Newer episodes are unlikely to have a transcript as it takes us a few weeks to process and edit each transcript. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. 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? Because it was. According to neuroscientists who study laughter, it turns out that chuckles and giggles often aren't a response to humorthey're a response to people. Look at it. And so somebody says something literally, somebody takes a point literally. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. It's testament to the incredible ingenuity and complexity of the human mind that all of these different perspectives on the world have been invented. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #10: (Speaking Russian). But it is a completely crucial part of the human experience. BORODITSKY: Yeah. Which pile do you go in, right? 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. 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. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page, sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain. 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. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. GEACONE-CRUZ: It's this phrase that describes something between I can't be bothered or I don't want to do it or I recognize the incredible effort that goes into something, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. 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. As you're going about your day, you likely interact with family, friends and coworkers. In English, actually, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, I broke my arm. Whats going on here? 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 So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. And we looked at every personification and allegory in Artstor and asked, does the language that you speak matter for how you paint death, depending on whether the word death is masculine or feminine in your language? I'm Shankar Vedantam. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. VEDANTAM: My guest today is - well, why don't I let her introduce herself? You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. If I give you a bunch of pictures to lay out and say this is telling you some kind of story and you - and they're disorganized, when an English speaker organizes those pictures, they'll organize them from left to right. All rights reserved. For more of our Relationships 2.0 series, check out one of our most popular episodes ever about why marriages are so hard. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes 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. So in terms of the size of differences, there are certainly effects that are really, really big. BORODITSKY: That's a wonderful question. So I just think that it's something we need to check ourselves for. 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. And it's not just about how we think about time. And they suggest that differences across languages do, in fact, predict some of these measures of gender equality across countries. This week, in the final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes what happens when we stop to savor the beauty in nature, art, or simply the moral courage of those around us. You know, it's Lady Liberty and Lady Justice. 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. 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. 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. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. They are ways of seeing the world. Those sorts things tend to start with women. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. 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 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. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. 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. She shows how our conversational styles can cause We all know casual sex isn't about love. So the way you say hi in Kuuk Thaayorre is to say, which way are you heading? It's never happened. Not without written permission. You're not going to do trigonometry. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. 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. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. FEB 27, 2023; Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button . And, I mean, really, it sounds exactly like that. BORODITSKY: So quite literally, to get past hello, you have to know which way you're heading. They give us a sense that the meanings of words are fixed, when in fact they're not. So one possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside - right? I just don't want to do it. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. So that, again, is a huge difference. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where. 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 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. JERRY SEINFELD: (As Jerry Seinfeld) The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. You can find all Hidden Brain episodes on our website. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Speaking foreign language). BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. 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. Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS), by Harry T. Reis et. So when the perfect woman started writing him letters, it seemed too good to be true. So what happens is that once literally comes to feel like it means really, people start using it in figurative constructions such as I was literally dying of thirst. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Speaking foreign language). He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . Accuracy and availability may vary. al, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2008. Thank you! 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. You can search for the episode or browse all episodes on our Archive Page. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. The fact is that language change can always go in one of many directions, there's a chance element to it. But things can be important not just because they're big. Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? What Do You Do When Things Go Right? Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. VEDANTAM: If languages are shaped by the way people see the world, but they also shape how people see the world, what does this mean for people who are bilingual? This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams, by Amy Edmondson, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, by Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, Kevin Ochsner, Psychological Science, 2008. VEDANTAM: Many of us have dictionaries at home or at work, John. And then when I turned, this little window stayed locked on the landscape, but it turned in my mind's eye. out. And we teach them, for example, to say that bridges and apples and all kinds of other things have the same prefix as women. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. BORODITSKY: Actually, one of the first people to notice or suggest that this might be the case was a Russian linguist, Roman Jakobson. You can search for the episode or browse all episodes on our Archive Page. We couldnt survive without the many public radio stations that support our show and they cant survive without you. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does it Operate? It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. If you're like most people, you probably abandoned those resolutions within a few weeks. I think language can certainly be a contributor into the complex system of our thinking about gender. And I can't help surmising that part of it is that the educated American has been taught and often well that you're not supposed to look down on people because of gender, because of race, because of ability. That's what it's all about. MCWHORTER: Yeah, I really do. 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? So you have speakers of two different languages look at the same event and come away with different memories of what happened because of the structure of their languages and the way they would normally describe them. 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. So you can't see time. It goes in this pile. You're not going to do any of the things that are seen as a foundation of our technological society. 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. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. Our team includes Laura Kwerel, Adhiti Bandlamudi and our supervising producer Tara Boyle. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. He. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. But actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. You can also connect directly with our sponsorship representative by emailing [emailprotected]. 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. : The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Shelly. So we've done a lot of studies looking at how speakers of Spanish and German and Russian actually think about objects that have opposite grammatical genders. GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe watching Netflix or something. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. and pick the featured episodes for your show. You would give a different description to mark that it was not intentional. We also look at how. Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. VEDANTAM: I love this analogy you have in the book where you mention how, you know, thinking that a word has only one meaning is like looking at a snapshot taken at one point in a person's life and saying this photograph represents the entirety of what this person looks like. MCWHORTER: Yes, that's exactly true. They often feel angry about it, and you think this anger is actually telling. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. VEDANTAM: In the English-speaking world, she goes by Lera Boroditsky. 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. 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. 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. And so language changed just like the clouds in the sky. And if they were facing east, they would make the cards come toward them, toward the body. So for example, if Sam grabbed a hammer and struck the flute in anger, that would be one description, like, Sam broke the flute. 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. But, you know, John, something gnaws at me every time I hear the word used wrong. BORODITSKY: Yeah. She once visited an aboriginal community in northern Australia and found the language they spoke forced her mind to work in new ways. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST:This is HIDDEN BRAIN. Time now for "My Unsung Hero," our series from the team at Hidden Brain telling the stories of . Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. 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. All of the likes and, like, literallies (ph) might sometimes grate on your nerves, but John McWhorter says the problem might be with you, not with the way other people speak. And so to address that question, what we do is we bring English speakers into the lab, and we teach them grammatical genders in a new language that we invent. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. Additional Resources Book: 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. How else would you do it? 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? So these speakers have internalized this idea from their language, and they believe that it's right. So you may start with moving your southwest leg in, but then you have to move your northeast leg out. You also see huge differences in other domains like number. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9rd1djMGxoZg==, open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. You're also not going to do algebra. Hidden Brain Feb 23, 2023 Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. So there are these wonderful studies by Alexander Giora where he asked kids learning Finnish, English and Hebrew as their first languages basically, are you a boy or a girl? Of course, if you can't keep track of exactly seven, you can't count. But if you ask bilinguals, who have learned two languages and now they know that some genders disagree across the two languages, they're much less likely to say that it's because chairs are intrinsically masculine. I decided it was very important for me to learn English because I had always been a very verbal kid, and I'd - was always the person who recited poems in front of the school and, you know, led assemblies and things like that. A brief history of relationship research in social psychology, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of the History of Social Psychology, 2011. 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. But I find that people now usually use the word to mean very soon, as in we're going to board the plane momentarily. Parents and peers influence our major life choices, but they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. See you next week. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. (Speaking Japanese). And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? Why researchers should think real-world: A conceptual rationale, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life, 2012. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. And if you don't have a word for exactly seven, it actually becomes very, very hard to keep track of exactly seven. So earlier things are on the left. And it irritates people, but there's a different way of seeing literally. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. That was somehow a dad's fashion, and that I should start wearing flat-fronted pants. Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. Take the word bridge - if it's feminine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are beautiful and elegant. 437 Episodes Produced by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Website. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #8: (Speaking Italian). Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004.
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