Decoding Emotions - Transcripts We lobby a neighbor to vote for our favored political candidate. Writing has come along relatively recently. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. 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. You can also connect directly with our sponsorship representative by emailing [emailprotected]. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. Parents and peers influence our major life choices.
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. My big fat greek wedding, an american woman of greek ancestry falls in love with a very vanilla, american man. You know, it's Lady Liberty and Lady Justice. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. I'm shankar Vedantam in the 2002 rom com. 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? Look at it. MCWHORTER: Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still. Parents and peers influence our major life choices, but they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. Women under about 30 in the United States, when they're excited or they're trying to underline a point, putting uh at the end of things. Lots of languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. 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. For example, he might take a bunch of pictures of boys and girls and sort them and say, OK, this is a boy. In the United States, we often praise people with strong convictions, and look down on those who express doubt or hesitation. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, by Kennon M. Sheldon, 2022. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. And I would really guess that in a few decades men will be doing it, too.
Google Podcasts - hidden brain Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. June 20, 2020 This week on Hidden Brain, research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. I think that the tone that many people use when they're complaining that somebody says Billy and me went to the store is a little bit incommensurate with the significance of the issue. So one possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside - right? 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. Shankar Vedantam, host of the popular podcast "Hidden Brain" has been reporting on human behavior for decades. VEDANTAM: Our conversation made me wonder about what this means on a larger scale. Mistakes and errors are what turned Latin into French. I'm Shankar Vedantam, and you're listening to HIDDEN BRAIN. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST:This is HIDDEN BRAIN. 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. JENNIFER GEACONE-CRUZ: My name is Jennifer Geacone-Cruz. And dead languages never change, and some of us might prefer those. I want everybody to have the fun I'm having. You would never know, for example, that - give you an example I've actually been thinking about. 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. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. You may also use the Hidden Brain name in invitations sent to a small group of personal contacts for such purposes as a listening club or discussion forum. He says that buying into false beliefs, in other words, deluding ourselves can . And it irritates people, but there's a different way of seeing literally. VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often untranslatable. So we did an analysis of images in Artstor. BORODITSKY: I had this wonderful opportunity to work with my colleague Alice Gaby in this community called Pormpuraaw in - on Cape York. When we come back, we dig further into the way that gender works in different languages and the pervasive effects that words can play in our lives. This week on Hidden Brain, psychologist Adam Grant describes the magic th But what most people mean is that there'll be slang, that there'll be new words for new things and that some of those words will probably come from other languages. Our team includes Laura Kwerel, Adhiti Bandlamudi and our supervising producer Tara Boyle. Newsletter: Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. 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. Hidden Brain Feb 23, 2023 Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. "Most of the laughter we produce is purely . 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. HIDDEN BRAIN < Lost in Translation: January 29, 20189:00 PM ET VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. That said, if you hear one or two pieces of music that you really love, feel free to email us at [emailprotected] and well do our best to respond to your request. We call this language Gumbuzi. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way. It's not necessarily may I please have, but may I have, I'll have, but not can I get a. I find it just vulgar for reasons that as you can see I can't even do what I would call defending.
Watch Your Mouth | Hidden Brain : NPR VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. 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. BORODITSKY: It's certainly possible.
Elon Musk's brain chips, starvation in Somalia and Greek anguish Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. But might we allow that there's probably a part of all human beings that wants to look down on somebody else. And this is NPR. Can I get some chicken? Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done.
Hidden Brain on Apple Podcasts This week, in the fourth and final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes . But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? And what's cool about languages, like the languages spoken in Pormpuraaw, is that they don't use words like left and right, and instead, everything is placed in cardinal directions like north, south, east and west. See you next week. 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. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. The dictionary says both uses are correct. 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. 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. I've always found that a very grating way to ask for something at a store. BORODITSKY: Yeah. So act like Monday. And I did that. Perceived Partner Responsiveness Minimizes Defensive Reactions to Failure, by Peter A. Caprariello and Harry T. Reis, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2011. VEDANTAM: Time is another concept that is also central to the way we see and describe the world. VEDANTAM: (Laughter) All right, I think it might be time for me to confess one of my pet peeves. BORODITSKY: Actually, one of the first people to notice or suggest that this might be the case was a Russian linguist, Roman Jakobson.
Who Do You Want To Be? | Hidden Brain Media Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 4.62. 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 ), The Sourcebook of Listening Research: Methodology and Measures, 2018. And so somebody says something literally, somebody takes a point literally.
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Reframing Your Reality: Part 1 | Hidden Brain Media But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). 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. If a transcript is available, you'll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law Students? If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. And what we find is that if you teach people that forks go with men grammatically in a language, they start to think of forks as being more masculine. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. The fun example I give my students is imagine playing the hokey pokey in a language like this. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Official Website Airs on: SUN 7pm-8pm 55:27 Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button Feb 27 Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. Yes! But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? Many people have this intuition that, oh, I could never learn that; I could never survive in a community like this. And then question 21 was, is this person a man or a woman? Transcript Speaker 1 00:00:00 this is hidden brain. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness can seem more el, When we want something very badly, it can be hard to see warning signs that might be obvious to other people. But if you prefer life - the unpredictability of life - then living language in many ways are much more fun. Imagine this. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through. - so one skull but two different minds, and you shift from one to the other. 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. But actually, it's something that's not so hard to learn. 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. So that's a measurement difference of 100 percent of performance. If you missed it, 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. And a girl goes in this pile. 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. But somehow they've managed, not just by randomly bumping into each other. He's also the author of the book, "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).". When she was 12, her family came to the United States from the Soviet Union. They give us a sense that the meanings of words are fixed, when in fact they're not. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness Why do some companies become household names, while others flame out? BORODITSKY: Thank you so much for having me. Hidden Brain: You, But Better on Apple Podcasts 50 min You, But Better Hidden Brain Social Sciences Think about the resolutions you made this year: to quit smoking, eat better, or get more exercise.
Hidden Brain: The Easiest Person to Fool on Apple Podcasts Whereas speakers of a language like Spanish might not be quite as good at remembering who did it when it's an accident, but they're better at remembering that it was an accident. So to go back to the example we were just talking about - people who don't use words like left and right - when I gave those picture stories to Kuuk Thaayorre speakers, who use north, south, east and west, they organized the cards from east to west. So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. I think it's a really fascinating question for future research. They shape our place in it. Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. If you prefer to listen through a podcast app, here are links to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. 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. When the con was exposed, its victims defended the con artists. And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? 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. Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. And if you don't have a word for exactly seven, it actually becomes very, very hard to keep track of exactly seven. But what I am thinking is, you should realize that even if you don't like it, there's nothing wrong with it in the long run because, for example, Jonathan Swift didn't like it that people were saying kissed instead of kiss-ed (ph) and rebuked instead of rebuk-ed (ph). 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.
Who Do You Want To Be? - Hidden Brain (pdcast) | Listen Notes We'll be back momentarily. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. And you've conducted experiments that explore how different conceptions of time in different languages shape the way we think about the world and shape the way we think about stories. Growing up, I understood this word to mean for a very short time, as in John McWhorter was momentarily surprised. 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. For more on decision-making, check out our episode on how to make wiser choices. Those sorts things tend to start with women. 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. But, you know, John, something gnaws at me every time I hear the word used wrong. 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 Please do not republish our logo, name or content digitally or distribute to more than 10 people without written permission. In this week's My Unsung Hero, Sarah Feldman thanks someone for their gift more than 20 years ago. That's how much cultural heritage is lost. 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. And one day, I was walking along, and I was just staring at the ground. You can find the transcript for most episodes of Hidden Brain on our website.
Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose - Google Podcasts 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. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, direct support to Hidden Brain by making a gift on our Patreon page, sponsorship opportunities on Hidden Brain. We don't want to be like that. And so I was trying to keep track of which way is which. VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often, untranslatable. But does a person who says that really deserve the kind of sneering condemnation that you often see? 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. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 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. If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes And he started by asking Russian-speaking students to personify days of the week.
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Hidden Brain All of these are very subjective things. So the question for us has been, how do we build these ideas? You know, endings are going to tend to drop off. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. Stay with us. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? And nobody wishes that we hadn't developed our modern languages today from the ancient versions. There are different ways to be a psychologist. Imagine you meet somebody, they're 39 and you take their picture. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking foreign language). The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. LERA BORODITSKY: The categorization that language provides to you becomes real - becomes psychologically real. Whats going on here? MCWHORTER: Thank you for having me, Shankar. But the reason that it seems so elusive is because we don't really think about the, quote, unquote, "meaning" of things like our conversation-easing laughter. We use a lot of music on the show! : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. 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. This week, in the fourth and final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. This week, a story about a con with a twist. 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).".