Saving for a rainy day: Keith Chen on language that forecasts weather — and behavior How language can affect the way we think
a distinction between the words “try” and “do”, but as behavioral economist Keith Chen has shown, our language affects our behaviors. “If we change the manner in which we talk about
a study designed by Keith Chan he looked into how language affects and individuals ability to save money for the future. According
Keith Chen claims that the English language “oblige speakers to grammatically separate the future from the present”, which leads them to invest less in the future. Meanwhile in languages suc...
of the TED Radio Hour called The Money Paradox, I learned about a weird study conducted by Keith Chen; in his own words, this is what he
structure of language does seem to impact the way we think. Keith Chen looked at languages with different structure in describing the course of events. Chen’s research,
structure of language does seem to impact the way we think. Keith Chen looked at languages with different structure in describing the course of events. Chen’s
is an article version of the Ted Talk I skimmed to pull science-sounding excerpts to back up my theory in today’s show. It’s
It is also possible that how we talk about the weather is determining our prosperity according to Keith Chen.
first was a follow-up study to Keith Chen’s 2013 research purporting to show that the way a language marks future tense affects the way its speakers prepare
Dr. Chen, Can you please comment on how Yiddish fits into the futureless scheme? My father is an Eastern European Jewish immigrant who came to the US from Poland at age 3 with his parents pre-WWI...
is as true as it can be. Studies have shown that culture and language spoken influence
資料來源:TED Blog (http://blog.ted.com/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavio…)
ainda: será que nossa língua afeta nossas decisões econômicas? Seus questionamentos geraram um estudo (em inglês) que investigou como nossa língua pode afetar a habilidade individual de ...
zależało mu na odkryciu, czy nasz język wpływa na nasze decyzje finansowe. Aby to sprawdzić przygotował zestaw badań – jak język wpływa na jednostkę w kwesti gromadzenia oszczędnoś...
and behave? In particular, he wanted to know: does our language affect our economic decisions? So he designed a study to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for t...
and behave? In particular, he wanted to know: does our language affect our economic decisions? So he designed a study to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for t...
In particular, he wanted to know: does our language affect our economic decisions? So he designed a study to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for the future. A...
designed a study — which he describes in detail in this blog post— to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for the future. According to
Keith Chen, source: http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-…