The Psychology of Language

Linguistic Relativity

Language matters. The Linguistic Relativity, or Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, proposes that the structure of a language influences the way its speakers perceive and conceptualize the world.
Studies suggest that the structure of a language affects its speakers’ perception and memory ¹ as well as cognition.

Footnotes

1. Fernandez-Duque, M., Hayakawa, S., & Marian, V. (2023). Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently. Science advances, 9(33), eadh0064. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0064 ↩