He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . 585: In Defense of Ignorance - This American Life BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. GEACONE-CRUZ: And I ended up living there for 10 years. Hidden Brain. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. It might irritate you slightly to hear somebody say something like, I need less books instead of fewer books. He didn't like that people were shortening the words. 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. Laughter: The Best Medicine | Hidden Brain : NPR But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. But actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. Welcome to HIDDEN BRAIN. this is hidden brain I'm Shankar Vedantam in the classic TV series Star Trek Mister Spock has a foolproof technique for accurately reading the thoughts and feelings of others the Vulcan mind I am Spock you James our minds are moving closer most most here are kind of hard we have new technology that gives us direct access to the minds of others so 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. And so language changed just like the clouds in the sky. (LAUGHTER) VEDANTAM: In the English-speaking world, she goes by Lera Boroditsky. But it turns out humans can stay oriented really, really well, provided that their language and culture requires them to keep track of this information. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way, and you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it. BORODITSKY: Yeah. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. Because were a small team, we dont have a publicly-available list of every piece of music that we use. 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. Whats going on here? But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. It can be almost counterintuitive to listen to how much giggling and laughing you do in ordinary - actually rather plain exchanges with people. Whats going on here? Flight attendant Steven Slater slides from a plane after quitting. One study that I love is a study that asked monolingual speakers of Italian and German and also bilingual speakers of Italian and German to give reasons for why things are the grammatical genders that they are. He's a defender of language on the move, but I wanted to know if there were things that irritated even him. Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. How does that sound now? If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes And in fact, speakers of languages like this have been shown to orient extremely well - much better than we used to think humans could. BORODITSKY: I spoke really terrible Indonesian at the time, so I was trying to practice. Perceived Partner Responsiveness as an Organizing Construct in the Study of Intimacy and Closeness, by Harry T. Reis, et. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. So for example, if Sam grabbed a hammer and struck the flute in anger, that would be one description, like, Sam broke the flute. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about language. Hidden Brain (podcast) - Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - Listen Notes And one thing that we've noticed is that around the world, people rely on space to organize time. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. So when I ask you to, say, imagine a man walking down the street, well, in your imagery, you're going to have some details completed and some will be left out. You also see huge differences in other domains like number. Growing up, I understood this word to mean for a very short time, as in John McWhorter was momentarily surprised. BORODITSKY: Yeah. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). Podcasters use the RadioPublic listener relationship platform to build lasting connections with fans. But does a person who says that really deserve the kind of sneering condemnation that you often see? Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy | Hidden Brain Media In The Air We Breathe : NPR BORODITSKY: That's a wonderful question. So act like Monday. 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. Which I think is probably important with the reality that this edifice that you're teaching is constantly crumbling. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. And if it was feminine, then you're likely to paint death as a woman. 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. They often feel angry about it, and you think this anger is actually telling. Cholera and malnourishment await Somalis fleeing . Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. We recommend movies or books to a friend. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness Why do some companies become household names, while others flame out? GEACONE-CRUZ: It's a Sunday afternoon, and it's raining outside. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website. Hidden Brain - Transcripts 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. 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. Watch Your Mouth | Hidden Brain : NPR Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. Lost In Translation- Hidden Brain Podcast Transcript .pdf Listen on the Reuters app. Whats going on here? John, you've noted that humans have been using language for a very long time, but for most of that time language has been about talking. 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. In The Air We Breathe . If you're just joining us, I'm talking to John McWhorter. 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. (Speaking Japanese). So one possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside - right? This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th Hidden Brain : NPR Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. 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. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. 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. For more on decision-making, check out our episode on how to make wiser choices. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004. Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. In many languages, nouns are gendered. But it is a completely crucial part of the human experience. This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedantam. I'm Shankar Vedantam. And I did that. And very competent adults of our culture can't do that. . Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, Going the Distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The Vital Role of Identified Motivation, Athletic Scholarships are Negatively Associated with Intrinsic Motivation for Sports, Even Decades Later: Evidence for Long-Term Undermining, Rightly Crossing the Rubicon: Evaluating Goal Self-Concordance Prior to Selection Helps People Choose More Intrinsic Goals, What Makes Lawyers Happy? I'm Shankar Vedantam. 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. And maybe the convenience store or the shop is really not that far away. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. Imagine this. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? And the answer should be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you? 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. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. Hidden Brain Host Explains Why We Lie to Ourselves Every Day I'm shankar Vedantam in the 2002 rom com. And there are consequences for how people think about events, what they notice when they see accidents. 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.