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How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health [A]Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New re
How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health [A]Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New re
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2019-02-17
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How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health
[A]Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New research by Keith Chen of Yale Business School suggests so. The structure of languages affects our judgments and decisions about the future and this might have dramatic long-term consequences.
[B]There has been a lot of research into how we deal with the future. For example, the famous marshmallow(棉花糖)studies of Walter Mischel and colleagues showed that being able to resist temptation is predictive of future success. Four-year-old kids were given a marshmallow and were told that if they did not eat that marshmallow and waited for the experimenter to come back, they would get two marshmallows instead of one. Follow-up studies showed that the kids who were able to wait for the bigger future reward became more successful adults.
[C]Resisting our impulses for immediate pleasure is often the only way to attain the outcomes that are important to us. We want to keep a slim figure but we also want that last slice of pizza. We want a comfortable retirement, but we also want to drive that dazzling car, go on that dream vacation, or get those gorgeous shoes. Some people are better at delaying gratification(满足)than others. Those people have a better chance of accumulating wealth and keeping a healthy life style. They are less likely to be impulse buyers or smokers, or to engage in unsafe sex.
[D]Chen’ s recent findings suggest that an unlikely factor, language, strongly affects our future-oriented behavior. Some languages strongly distinguish the present and the future. Other languages only weakly distinguish the present and the future. Chen’ s recent research suggests that people who speak languages that weakly distinguish the present and the future are better prepared for the future. They accumulate more wealth and they are better able to maintain their health. The way these people conceptualize the future is similar to the way they conceptualize the present. As a result, the future does not feel very distant and it is easier for them to act in accordance with their future interests.
[E]Different languages have different ways of talking about the future. Some languages, such as English, Korean, and Russian, require their speakers to refer to the future explicitly. Every time English-speakers tell about the future, they have to use future markers such as "will" or "going to". In other languages, such as Mandarin, Japanese, and German, future markers are not obligatory(强制性的). The future is often talked about similar to the way present is talked about and the meaning is understood from the context. A Mandarin speaker who is going to go to a seminar might say "Wo qu ting jiangzuo" , which translates to "I go listen seminar". Languages such as English constantly remind their speakers that future events are distant. For speakers of languages such as Mandarin future feels closer. As a consequence, resisting immediate impulses and investing for the future is easier for Mandarin speakers.
[F]Chen analyzed individual-level data from 76 developed and developing countries. This data includes people’ s economic decisions, such as whether they saved any money last year, the languages they speak at home, demographics(人口统计资料), and cultural factors such as " saving is an important cultural value for me". He also analyzed individual-level data on people’ s retirement assets, smoking and exercising habits, and general health in older age. Lastly, he analyzed national-level data that includes national savings rates, country GDP and GDP growth rates, country demographics, and proportions of people speaking different languages.
[G]People’ s savings rates are affected by various factors such as their income, education level, age, religious connection, their countries’ legal systems, and their cultural values. After those factors were accounted for, the effect of language on people’ s savings rates turned out to be big. Speaking a language that has obligatory future markers, such as English, makes people less likely to save money for the future. This effect is as large as the effect of unemployment. Being unemployed decreases the likelihood of saving by about 30 percent as well. Similar analyses showed that speaking a language that does not have obligatory future markers, such as Mandarin, makes people accumulate more retirement assets, smoke less, exercise more, and generally be healthier in older age. Countries’ national savings rates are also affected by language. Having a larger proportion of people speaking languages that does not have obligatory future markers makes national savings rates higher.
[H]At a more practical level, researchers have been looking for ways to help people act in accordance with their long-term interests. Recent findings suggest that making the future feel closer to the present might improve future-oriented behavior. For instance, researchers recently presented people with renderings of their future selves made using age-progression algorithms(算法)that forecast how physical appearances would change over time. One group of participants saw a digital representation of their current selves in a virtual mirror, and the other group saw an age-morphed version of their future selves. Those participants who saw the age-morphed version of their future selves allocated more money toward a hypothetical savings account. The intervention brought people’ s future to the present and as a result they saved more for the future.
[I]Chen’ s research shows that language structures our future-related thoughts. Language has been used before to alter time perception with surprising effects. Ellen Langer and colleagues famously improved older people’ s physical health by simple interventions including asking them to talk about the events of twenty years ago as if they were happening now. Talking about the past as if it were the present changed people’ s mindsets and their mindsets affected their physical states. Chen’ s research points at the possibility that the way we talk about the future can shape our mindsets. Language can move the future back and forth in our mental space and this might have dramatic influences on our judgments and decisions.
Ellen Langer and colleagues successfully got the physical health of the older people to become better by simple interventions.
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题干大意:埃伦-兰格和同事通过简单的干预就成功地使老年人的身体状况变得更好。由题干中的“Ellen Langer and colleagues”“got the physical health of the older people to become better by simple interventions”可以定位到文中I段第三句话,该句提到“埃伦-兰格和他的同事因通过简单的干预就改善了老年人的身体状况而出名”,与题干相吻合。
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