VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways w, Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams, by Amy Edmondson, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999. So bilinguals are kind of this in-between case where they can't quite turn off their other languages, but they become more prominent, more salient when you are actually speaking the language or surrounded by the language. When she was 12, her family came to the United States from the Soviet Union. VEDANTAM: As someone who spends a lot of his time listening to language evolve, John hears a lot of slang. Bu 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. But if I give that same story to a Hebrew or an Arabic speaker, they would organize it from right to left. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. This is Hidden Brain. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Cholera and malnourishment await Somalis fleeing . Read the episode transcript. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Dont Know, by Adam Grant, 2021. Language is something that's spoken, and spoken language especially always keeps changing. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness can seem more elusive the harder we chase it, and what we can do instead to build a lasting sense of contentment. 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. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. So even if I'm speaking English, the distinctions that I've learned in speaking Russian, for example, are still active in my mind to some extent, but they're more active if I'm actually speaking Russian. You can't know, but you can certainly know that if could listen to people 50 years from now, they'd sound odd. by Harry T. Reis, Annie Regan, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021. 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. Transcript 585: In Defense of Ignorance Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. So we did an analysis of images in Artstor. Now, in a lot of languages, you can't say that because unless you were crazy, and you went out looking to break your arm, and you succeeded - right? 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. That's how much cultural heritage is lost. If it is the first time you login, a new account will be created automatically. MCWHORTER: Oh, yeah, I'm a human being. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-being: The Self-Concordance Model, Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-being, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. But we have plenty of words like that in English where it doesn't bother us at all. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. In this episode, we explore how long-term relationships have changed over time and whether we might be able to improve marriage by asking less of it. You may link to our content and copy and paste episode descriptions and Additional Resources into your invitations. 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. to describe the world. MCWHORTER: Yes, that's exactly true. 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. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. And so, for example, can I get a hamburger? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). It's part of a general running indication that everything's OK between you and the other person, just like one's expected to smile a little bit in most interactions. But what if it's not even about lust? Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button It's too high. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? GEACONE-CRUZ: And you're at home in your pajamas, all nice and cuddly and maybe, watching Netflix or something. 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. 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. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. But what if there's a whole category of people in your life whose impact is overlooked? Yes! 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. Lera is a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego. What Makes Lawyers Happy? BORODITSKY: Yeah. So the way you say hi in Kuuk Thaayorre is to say, which way are you heading? And you say that dictionaries in some ways paint an unrealistic portrait of a language. John is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. And they said, well, of course. It's not something that you typically go out trying to do intentionally. And if they were facing east, they would make the cards come toward them, toward the body. We post open positions (including internships) on our jobs page. But does a person who says that really deserve the kind of sneering condemnation that you often see? This week, in the final . 4.62. And as you point out, it's not just that people feel that a word is being misused. MCWHORTER: Thank you for having me, Shankar. We lobby a neighbor to vote for our favored political candidate. You're not going to do any of the things that are seen as a foundation of our technological society. Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. 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VEDANTAM: I want to talk in the second half of our conversation about why the meanings of words change, but I want to start by talking about how they change. Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. And this is NPR. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. And dead languages never change, and some of us might prefer those. MCWHORTER: Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still. VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. It has to do with the word momentarily. What Do You Do When Things Go Right? Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. BORODITSKY: Well, you would be at sea at first. 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. Because it was. 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, even though it shouldn't be so much of an effort. For more of our Relationships 2.0 series, check out one of our most popular episodes ever about why marriages are so hard. and pick the featured episodes for your show. In this favorite 2021 episode, psychologistAdam Grantpushes back against the benefits of certainty, and describes the magic that unfolds when we challenge our own deeply-held beliefs. 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. And, of course, you always have to wonder, well, could it be that speakers of these different languages are actually seeing different kinds of bridges? 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. It's never going to. And you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it out. So it's, VEDANTAM: The moment she heard it, Jennifer realized mendokusai was incredibly. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. 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. JERRY SEINFELD: (As Jerry Seinfeld) The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt.