I teach sociolinguistics and bilingualism at UCLA. Every quarter I diligently force students into studying the subject in vivo as they come up with projects relevant to our society. I really wish we did not have any reason for this particular entry languagedlife.humspace.ucla.edu/sociolinguisti…

1/ When we ask for something big 🙏—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection 🚫 or assume success 😎? With Andrew Chalfoun & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic 🌈, even though big requests often meet resistance 🚧 doi.org/10.1080/003802…