Matthew Lindgren

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Matthew Lindgren Rojo, LMFT

Matt Lindgren, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Walnut Creek on online at onlinecouplestherapy.com. Blogs about couples therapy, mental health, therapy, psychology and related random musings.

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WATCH: The psychology of accents

G’day mate! When you watch the episode above, you may think BrainCraft creator Vanessa Hill has an Aussie accent. But to her ears (and ours) she sounds perfectly normal.

So what causes our brains to detect certain pronunciations and sounds as “foreign”? And where do accents come from in the first place?

As Vanessa explains, it’s well known in psychology that different sounds can convey meaning, even if they don’t actually have meaning - for example, research shows that made-up words like ‘bouba’ make people think of soft and round shapes, where as a word like ‘kiki’ conjures up images of something sharp and pointy.

This also means that we can determine meaning from the way people sound, and studies have revealed that humans have an own-accent bias - so basically our brains automatically prefer our own accent over those of others. Even one-year-old babies automatically prefer the sounds of the language spoken in their home to other people’s accents.

Accents also make us think certain things about the speaker, even if they’re not true. For example, we’re less likely to trust information from people with foreign accents - and the stronger the accent, the less trustworthy the speaker becomes. (Note: we’re so glad you can’t hear our accent from our typing).

In fact, the regions of the brain that light up when we hear someone speak even changes depending on whether the accent is familiar or not. All of this might explain why so many bad guys in American films are British.

But now that we’re all on the internet constantly and forming our own social groups and dialects with people from all around the world, are accents becoming redundant? Maybe it’s time we developed a universal, accent free accent…like emojis?

Watch the episode of BrainCraft above to find out what makes English people say “hahd” while Americans say “hard”. (Which one does an Australian say? You’ll have to watch to find out). Fascinating.

Source: BrainCraft

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What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.

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Matt Lindgren is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in the Oakland, California, area. The founder and CEO of Blackbird Family Therapy, Inc., Matt Lindgren works extensively with individuals from underserved populations and survivors of crimes and attacks. Matt Lindgren’s wide-ranging experiences and compassionate nature help him to convey to his patients the idea that, “Loving yourself allows others to love you.”

Originally from the Midwest, Matt Lindgren earned his Bachelor’s degree in English from Minnesota State University Moorhead. He spent five years as a technical writer and demonstration engineer with Ariba Inc. in Sunnyvale, California, before entering the Clinical Psychology program at the New College of California in San Francisco. Lindgren explains that he entered the program because he wanted to give back to those who had helped him and give a purpose to losses in his own past.

Matt Lindgren’s first internships allowed him to work with diverse populations and learn the newest therapeutic methods. At Las Tias Orphanage in Leon, Nicaragua, he used play therapy to evaluate and treat children living on the street. He also worked at the New College of California Community Counseling Center, using psychodynamic and play therapy to treat adults and children from the both the Latino and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT) communities of San Francisco. While he was an intern at the Anthropos Counseling Center in Livermore, California, Matthew Lindgren learned therapeutic techniques such as somatic experiencing and eye movement desensitization and processing (EMDR).

Other therapists and past clients highly praise Lindgren’s methods. Professionals in his field have admired his integrity, compassion, and good judgment. Satisfied clients have commended his respect for boundaries, knowledge, and gentleness. Lindgren is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the organization’s East Bay chapter.

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