Travis Mayo
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Linguistic relativity is the idea that your language shapes how you think, and Lera Boroditsky's lab found a twist. Spanish and English speakers remembered who did intentional acts equally well. The gap only showed up for accidents, and Japanese speakers showed it too. I believe your first language decides what your mind keeps. If you speak two languages, do you blame differently in each? #TravisMayo #learning #linguisticrelativity #leraboroditsky #bilingual
Travis Mayo61,900 views • 3 days ago
Algospeak is Orwell's Newspeak with an app running it. Linguist Adam Aleksic's book Algospeak shows how rape became grape and suicide became sewer slide. Zuckerberg told Congress the White House pressured Facebook to censor COVID posts, even jokes. Who decided which words you're allowed to use? #TravisMayo #learning #booktok #censorship #censorship
Travis Mayo843,500 views • 1 month ago
Kross calls it distanced self-talk, and in a 2017 brain study the emotional reaction dropped in about one second when people used their own name. Chatter is also the title of his 2021 book. I believe the voice in your head deserves an interview before it gets a vote. What is the cruelest thing it says to you? #TravisMayo #learning #innervoice #ethankross #selftalk
Travis Mayo48,900 views • 5 days ago
Mobbing is how a group slowly turns on one person until they're gone, a pattern Swedish psychologist Heinz Leymann mapped in the 1980s. I watched it happen to a mentor of mine. Research finds high performers get targeted more, often out of envy, and a study of 788 workers found the people who stay quiet are about three times more likely to be next. Who decided they were the problem? #TravisMayo #learning #mobbing #workplacebullying #toxicworkplace
Travis Mayo88,600 views • 16 days ago
Arrival was adapted from Ted Chiang's 1998 short story Story of Your Life, and McGill linguist Jessica Coon advised the film on how a real linguist would decode an alien language. The theory is named after Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Lee Whorf. I believe the words you were raised with draw the borders of your world. What word from another language do you wish English had? #TravisMayo #learning #sapirwhorf #arrivalmovie #linguistics
Travis Mayo20,800 views • 6 days ago
Acquired savant syndrome is one of the most documented and least understood phenomena in neuroscience. People with no musical ability sitting down and playing piano at a concert level after a brain injury. Artists who never held a brush producing masterpieces after a stroke. The leading theory isn't that the injury created something new. It's that it removed a suppression mechanism. Which raises one question worth sitting with. What might the uninjured brain be holding back in the rest of us. #TravisMayo #learning #SavantSyndrome #Neuroscience #HiddenPsychology
Travis Mayo346,600 views • 4 months ago
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