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Language Appears to Shape Our Implicit Preferences | Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 3, 2010 – The language we speak may influence not only our thoughts, but our implicit preferences as well.The traditional view claims that the emotions are more of an obstacle than a source of knowledge, but they play more a positive role in our mental lives and, without them, we would be unable to make sense of the world. Emotions as an obstacle to knowledge
Emotions as ways of knowing
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky
Humans communicate with one another using a dazzling array of languages, each differing from the next in innumerable ways. Do the languages we speak shape the way we see the world, the way we think, and the way we live our lives?
