{"id":5870,"date":"2014-09-02T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2014-09-02T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:52:07","slug":"our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests-shots-health-news-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/02\/our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests-shots-health-news-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots &#8211; Health News : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But in retrospect he says it makes sense. We use &#8220;I&#8221; more when we talk to someone with power because we&#8217;re more self-conscious. We are focused on ourselves \u2014 how we&#8217;re coming across \u2014 and our language reflects that.<br \/>\nSo could we use these insights to change ourselves? Like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, could we bend our personalities by bending the words we use? Could we become stronger? More powerful? Healthier?<br \/>\nAfter 20 years of looking at this stuff, Pennebaker doubts it.<br \/>\n&#8220;The words reflect who we are more than [they] drive who we are,&#8221; he says.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t, he believes, change who you are by changing your language; you can only change your language by changing who you are. He says that&#8217;s what his research indicates.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/09\/01\/344043763\/our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20140901\">Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots &#8211; Health News : NPR<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in retrospect he says it makes sense. We use &#8220;I&#8221; more when we talk to someone with power because we&#8217;re more self-conscious. We are focused on ourselves \u2014 how we&#8217;re coming across \u2014 and our language reflects that. So could we use these insights to change ourselves? Like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/02\/our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests-shots-health-news-npr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots &#8211; Health News : NPR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}