{"id":2357,"date":"2026-05-09T21:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:40:07","slug":"human-language-is-biased-towards-safety-major-study-reveals-challenging-70-year-scientific-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Human language is biased towards safety, major study reveals, challenging 70-year scientific consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1126938\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Human language is biased towards safety, major study reveals, challenging 70-year scientific consensus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediasvc.eurekalert.org\/Api\/v1\/Multimedia\/2570355d-9b8e-4697-a495-a02bb72d91a5\/Rendition\/thumbnail\/Content\/Public\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.eurekalert.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Human language is biased towards safety, major study reveals, challenging 70-year scientific consensus<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">A new study challenges one of the most widely accepted ideas in psychology and linguistics: that the meaning of words is fundamentally organized around expressing emotion. Instead, a team of scientists at the University of Vermont have looked at the use of billions of words and discovered that language is structured by something deeper&mdash;and more consequential: the need for safety and survival.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}