Lera Boroditsky

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Full Name	Lera Boroditsky
Occupation	Psychologist
Date Of Birth	May 8, 1976(1976-05-08)
Age	48
Birthplace	Belarus
Horoscope	Gemini

Lera Boroditsky Biography

Lera Boroditsky is one of the most popular and richest Psychologist who was born on May 8, 1976 in Belarus, ****. Lera Boroditsky (born 1976?) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. She is currently one of the main contributors to the theory of linguistic relativity. She is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, recipient of a National Science Foundation Career award, and an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist. She is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at UCSD and Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She previously served on the faculty at MIT and at Stanford.

She became an assistant professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT before she was hired by Stanford in 2004. Gordon Bower says: “It’s exceedingly rare for us to hire back our own graduate students.. [s]he brought a very high IQ and a tremendous ability for penetrating analysis.” At Stanford, she was an assistant professor of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.

Lera Boroditsky Net Worth

Lera Boroditsky is one of the richest Psychologist from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lera Boroditsky 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Boroditsky was born in Belarus to a Jewish family. When she was 12 years old, her family emigrated to the United States, where she learned to speak English as her fourth language. As a teenager she began thinking about the degree to which language differences could shape an argument and exaggerate the differences between people. She received her B.A. degree in cognitive science at Northwestern University in 1996. She went to graduate school at Stanford University, where she obtained her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 2001. She worked under Gordon Bower who was her thesis advisor at Stanford. Boroditsky also conducted research at Stanford University.

A study published in 2000, observed that “the processing of the concrete domain of space could modulate the processing of the abstract domain of time, but not the other way around.” The frequent use of a mental metaphor connects it to the abstract concept and helps the mind to store non-concrete informations in the long-term memory. Boroditsky has also done research on metaphors and their relation to crime. Her work has suggested that some conventional and systematic metaphors influence the way people reason about the issues they describe. For instance, previous work has found that people were more likely to want to fight back against a crime “beast” by increasing the police force but more likely to want to diagnose and treat a crime “virus” through social reform.

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Lera Ranked on the list of most popular Psychologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in. Lera Boroditsky celebrates birthday on May 8 of every year.

What languages does Lera Boroditsky speak?

English

Is Lera Boroditsky a doctor?

Lera Boroditsky
Born| Belarus
Alma mater| Northwestern University (BA, 1996), Stanford University (PhD, 2001)
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor| Gordon H. Bower

What are Lera Boroditsky theories on how language shapes thought?

“ Each language has its own cognitive toolkit ,” said psychologist/linguist Lera Boroditsky in 2010 AD. Different languages handle verbs, distinctions, gender, time, space, metaphor, and agency differently, and those differences, her research shows, make people think and act differently.

How language shapes the way we think Ted Talk summary?

Lera Boroditsky in her Ted Talk talks about how the language that we speak shapes our thought process. The speech also talks about how our knowledge about the human mind is limited because the subjects of experiments are usually American Undergrads who speak English.

Who said language is based on thinking?

They wanted to understand how the language habits of a community encourage members of that community to interpret language in a particular manner (Sapir, 1941/1964). Sapir and Whorf proposed that language determines thought.