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And we teach them, for example, to say that bridges and apples and all kinds of other things have the same prefix as women. And it really is an illusion that what language is, is something that sits still. MCWHORTER: Yes, that's exactly true. 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 time doesn't have to flow with respect to the body. 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. MCWHORTER: Exactly. I just don't want to do it. 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. This is HIDDEN BRAIN. In this favorite 2021 episode, psychologist Adam Grant pushes back against the benefits of certainty, and describes the magic that unfolds when we challenge our own deeply-held beliefs. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. But it's exactly like - it was maybe about 20 years ago that somebody - a girlfriend I had told me that if I wore pants that had little vertical pleats up near the waist, then I was conveying that I was kind of past it. Let's start with the word literally. So you can think about an un-gendered person in the same way that I might think about a person without a specific age or specific height or specific color shirt. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness Why do some companies become household names, while others flame out? And then question 21 was, is this person a man or a woman? That's how much cultural heritage is lost. What a cynical thing to say, but that doesn't mean that it might not be true. We always knew that certain species of animals had abilities to orient that we thought were better than human, and we always had some biological excuse for why we couldn't do it. Whats going on here? But what we should teach is not that the good way is logical and the way that you're comfortable doing it is illogical. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. 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 GEACONE-CRUZ: It's a Sunday afternoon, and it's raining outside. When language was like that, of course it changed a lot - fast - because once you said it, it was gone. Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, by Kennon M. Sheldon, 2022. VEDANTAM: I understand that there's also been studies looking at how artists who speak different languages might paint differently depending on how their languages categorize, you know, concepts like a mountain or death. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. 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. You couldn't have predicted this I know-uh move-uh (ph). 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. 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. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. 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. 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? And when I listen to people having their peeves, I don't think, stop it. They know which way is which. Welcome to HIDDEN BRAIN. Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it's pretty much always driven older people crazy. Of course, eventually, the Finnish kids also figured it out because language isn't the only source of that information, otherwise it would be quite surprising for the Finns to be able to continue to reproduce themselves. Additional Resources Book: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button. Hidden Brain Feb 23, 2023 Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. I'm Shankar Vedanta. John is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. So you can't see time. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? GEACONE-CRUZ: It's a Sunday afternoon, and it's raining outside. 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. Another possibility is that it's a fully integrated mind, and it just incorporates ideas and distinctions from both languages or from many languages if you speak more than two. GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. Newsletter: Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. See you next week. L. Gable, et. Hidden Brain. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. al (Eds. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about language. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? VEDANTAM: Lera now tries to understand languages spoken all over 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. And so somebody says something literally, somebody takes a point literally. The Effective Negotiator Part 1: The Behavior of Successful Negotiators and The Effective Negotiator Part 2: Planning for Negotiations, by Neil Rackham and John Carlisle, Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978. Of course, you also can't experience anything outside of time. JERRY SEINFELD: (As Jerry Seinfeld) The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. I know-uh (ph) is there, or something along the lines of babe-uh (ph). Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. And then when I turned, this little window stayed locked on the landscape, but it turned in my mind's eye. Hidden Brain - Transcripts Hidden Brain - Transcripts Subscribe 435 episodes Share Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, by Robert A. Emmons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986. A brief history of relationship research in social psychology, by Harry T. Reis, in Handbook of the History of Social Psychology, 2011. You can also connect directly with our sponsorship representative by emailing [emailprotected]. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. He didn't like that people were shortening the words. 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. by Harry T. Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. Just saying hello was difficult. We post open positions (including internships) on our jobs page. 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. 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. So some languages don't have number words. What Makes Lawyers Happy? There are signs it's getting even harder. And then he would take a Polaroid of the kid and say, well, this is you. What do you think the implications are - if you buy the idea that languages are a very specific and unique way of seeing the world, of perceiving reality, what are the implications of so many languages disappearing during our time? No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. 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. How else would you do it? But might we allow that there's probably a part of all human beings that wants to look down on somebody else. In this week's My Unsung Hero, Sarah Feldman thanks someone for their gift more than 20 years ago. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. He's a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the author of the book "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).". That was somehow a dad's fashion, and that I should start wearing flat-fronted pants. Accuracy and availability may vary. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. Those sorts things tend to start with women. Please note that your continued use of the RadioPublic services following the posting of such changes will be deemed an acceptance of this update. 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 maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. So that's a measurement difference of 100 percent of performance. So earlier things are on the left. Because it was. We convince a colleague to take a different tactic at work. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. 4.62. It takes, 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. 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. You know, there's no left leg or right leg. This is Hidden Brain. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. 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. Imagine you meet somebody, they're 39 and you take their picture. 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. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. 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. And he started by asking Russian-speaking students to personify days of the week. And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice.