Category Archives: Science

der/die/das and el/la make you think differently ...

30Oct2009 3 Comments
Okay, so I kept read­ing about lan­guage and thought and came across a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle I had read a few years ago. Chew on this: A recent set of stud­ies sug­gests that the gram­mat­i­cal gen­ders assigned to objects by a lan­guage do indeed influ­ence people’s men­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tions of objects (Borodit­sky et al., in press). […] Span­ish and [...]

Language and Thought ...

29Oct2009 3 Comments
A Lan­guage of Smiles — Olivia Jud­son Blog — NYTimes​.com A set of exper­i­ments inves­ti­gat­ing the effects of facial move­ments on mood used dif­fer­ent vowel sounds as a stealthy way to get peo­ple to pull dif­fer­ent faces. (The idea was to avoid peo­ple real­iz­ing they were being made to scowl or smile.) The results showed that if you read aloud [...]

Is violence innate? ...

22Oct2009 Leave a comment
WNYC — Radi­o­lab: New Nor­mal? (Octo­ber 02, 2009) John Hor­gan exam­ines how Amer­i­cans seem to have a com­pletely dif­fer­ent atti­tude toward war than we did thirty years ago. He takes us on a stroll through Hobo­ken, ask­ing strangers one of the great unan­swer­able ques­tions: “Will humans ever stop fight­ing wars?” Strangely, every­one seems to know the answer. Robert Sapol­sky [...]
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