I'm shankar Vedantam in the 2002 rom com. There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. 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. VEDANTAM: Jennifer moved to Japan for graduate school. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. So earlier things are on the left. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. And as soon as I saw that happen, I thought, oh, this makes it so much easier. 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? 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. 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. He's also the author of the book, "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).". We call this language Gumbuzi. Can I get some chicken? 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. 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. But I don't think that it's always clear to us that language has to change in that things are going to come in that we're going to hear as intrusions or as irritating or as mistakes, despite the fact that that's how you get from, say, old Persian to modern Persian. 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. BORODITSKY: That's a wonderful question. Because it was. Dictionaries are wonderful things, but they create an illusion that there's such thing as a language that stands still, when really it's the nature of human language to change. Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose - Google Podcasts It's never happened. 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. But if you seed a watermelon, nobody assumes that you're taking seeds and putting them in the watermelon, you're taking them out.

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