UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: (Speaking foreign language). So in English, I might say that Sam (ph) broke the flute. But actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. These relationships can help you feel cared for and connected. Those sorts things tend to start with women. 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. VEDANTAM: (Laughter) All right, I think it might be time for me to confess one of my pet peeves. Whats going on here? And you suddenly get a craving for potato chips, and you realize that you have none in the kitchen, and there's nothing else you really want to eat. MCWHORTER: Exactly. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Thank you! Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, by Kennon M. Sheldon, 2022. But she told me a story about a conversation she had with a native speaker of Indonesian. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. It's just how I feel. VEDANTAM: It took just one week of living in Japan for Jennifer to pick up an important, VEDANTAM: There isn't a straightforward translation of this phrase in English. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. There's a way of speaking right. I'm Shankar Vedanta. 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. It has to do with the word momentarily. 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. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. You have to do it in order to fit into the culture and to speak the language. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Speaking foreign language). podcast pages. Well never sell your personal information. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. This is HIDDEN BRAIN. And if you don't have a word for exactly seven, it actually becomes very, very hard to keep track of exactly seven. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. That's because change is hard. And I would really guess that in a few decades men will be doing it, too. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. Hidden Brain. So if the word for death was masculine in your language, you were likely to paint death as a man. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? 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Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. al (Eds. How come you aren't exactly the way you were 10 years ago? So that's an example of how languages and cultures construct how we use space to organize time, to organize this very abstract thing that's otherwise kind of hard to get our hands on and think about. 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. Newsletter: Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. VEDANTAM: Around the world, we often hear that many languages are dying, and there are a few megalanguages that are growing and expanding in all kinds of ways. 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. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. But as Bob Cialdini set out to discover the keys to influence and persuasion, he decided to follow the instincts of his childhood. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way. Listen on the Reuters app. Put this image on your website to promote the show -, Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through, Report inappropriate content or request to remove this page. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. 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. 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. So I just think that it's something we need to check ourselves for. And if the word bridge is masculine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are strong and long and towering - these kind of more stereotypically masculine words. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. 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. But if I give that same story to a Hebrew or an Arabic speaker, they would organize it from right to left. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. And what he noticed was that when people were trying to act like Monday, they would act like a man. He's a defender of language on the move, but I wanted to know if there were things that irritated even him. VEDANTAM: My guest today is - well, why don't I let her introduce herself? Are the spoken origins of language one reason that words so often seem to be on the move? VEDANTAM: So this begs the question, if you were to put languages on something of a spectrum, where you have, you know, languages like Spanish or Hindi where nouns are gendered and languages like English where many nouns are not gendered but pronouns are gendered, and on the other end of the spectrum, you have languages like Finnish or Persian where you can have a conversation about someone without actually mentioning their gender, it would seem surprising if this did not translate, at some level, into the way people thought about gender in their daily activities, in terms of thinking about maybe even who can do what in the workplace. MCWHORTER: Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still. I'm shankar Vedantam in the 2002 rom com. Each language comprises the ideas that have been worked out in a culture over thousands of generations, and that is an incredible amount of cultural heritage and complexity of thought that disappears whenever a language dies. Only a couple hundred languages - or if you want to be conservative about it, a hundred languages - are written in any real way and then there are 6,800 others. Read the episode transcript. 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. You can't smell or taste time. But somehow they've managed, not just by randomly bumping into each other. It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy, What Do You Do When Things Go Right? In the final episode of our Relationships 2.0 series, psychologistHarry Reis says theres another ingredient to successful relationships thats every bit as important as love. My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. Of course, you also can't experience anything outside of time. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. And I don't think any of us are thinking that it's a shame that we're not using the language of Beowulf. 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. This week, we're going to bring you a conversation I had in front of a live audience with Richard Thaler, taped on Halloween at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D. Richard is a professor of behavioral sciences and economics at the University of Chicago and is a well-known author. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. 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. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes. If you're like most people, you probably abandoned those resolutions within a few weeks. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. That's the way words are, too. 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. They can be small differences but important in other ways. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #8: (Speaking Italian). And you suddenly get a craving for potato chips, and you, realize that you have none in the kitchen, and there's nothing else you really want to, eat. In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. You would never know, for example, that - give you an example I've actually been thinking about. MCWHORTER: Those are called contronyms, and literally has become a new contronym. Accuracy and availability may vary. VEDANTAM: Languages orient us to the world. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? And so somebody says something literally, somebody takes a point literally. 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. 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. 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. 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. He. 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. 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. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. 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. That hadn't started then. And you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it out. 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. Bu In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? VEDANTAM: Still don't have a clear picture? Newer episodes are unlikely to have a transcript as it takes us a few weeks to process and edit each transcript. 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. They are ways of seeing the world. So you might say, there's an ant on your northwest leg. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. A brief history of relationship research in social psychology, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of the History of Social Psychology, 2011. And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it. This is a database with millions of art images. 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. What techniques did that person use to persuade you? It's how we think about anything that's abstract, that's beyond our physical senses. So the question for us has been, how do we build these ideas? But does a person who says that really deserve the kind of sneering condemnation that you often see? And they said, well, of course. It might irritate you slightly to hear somebody say something like, I need less books instead of fewer books. Languages are not just tools. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. 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. GEACONE-CRUZ: It's a Sunday afternoon, and it's raining outside. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Copyright 2018 NPR. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #9: (Speaking German). You know, we spend years teaching children about how to use language correctly. And it's sad that we're not going to be able to make use of them and learn them and celebrate them. Whats going on here? Hidden Brain Feb 23, 2023 Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. Whats going on here? But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. 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. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. And it sounds a little bit abrupt and grabby like you're going to get something instead of being given. It's too high. When she was 12, her family came to the United States from the Soviet Union. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. If you take literally in what we can think of as its earliest meaning, the earliest meaning known to us is by the letter. Something new will have started by then, just like if we listen to people in 1971, they sound odd in that they don't say like as much as we do. And it ended up becoming less a direct reflection of hearty laughter than an indication of the kind of almost subconscious laughter that we do in any kind of conversation that's meant as friendly. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? 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 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?
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