Using a foreign language changes our choices

S Hayakawa, A Costa, A Foucart, B Keysar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
A growing literature demonstrates that using a foreign language affects choice. This is
surprising because if people understand their options, choice should be language …

[HTML][HTML] The foreign language effect on decision-making: A meta-analysis

R Circi, D Gatti, V Russo, T Vecchi - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, a growing body of literature has shown that being in a foreign language (FL)
context affects the way in which people make choices. This phenomenon is known as the …

[HTML][HTML] Risk perception and protective behaviors during the rise of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy

L Savadori, M Lauriola - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Risk perception is important in determining health-protective behavior. During the rise of the
COVID-19 epidemic, we tested a comprehensive structural equation model of risk …

How foreign language shapes moral judgment

J Geipel, C Hadjichristidis, L Surian - Journal of experimental social …, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigated whether and how processing information in a foreign language as opposed
to the native language affects moral judgments. Participants judged the moral wrongness of …

[HTML][HTML] The foreign language effect on moral judgment: The role of emotions and norms

J Geipel, C Hadjichristidis, L Surian - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We investigated whether and why the use of a foreign language influences moral judgment.
We studied the trolley and footbridge dilemmas, which propose an action that involves killing …

Language and consumer dishonesty: A self-diagnosticity theory

PJ Gai, S Puntoni - Journal of Consumer Research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
How does foreign language influence consumer dishonesty? We propose a self-
diagnosticity theory arguing that compared to one's native language, using a foreign …

On language processing shaping decision making

A Costa, ML Vives, JD Corey - Current Directions in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research has revealed that people's preferences, choices, and judgments are
affected by whether information is presented in a foreign or a native language. Here, we …

Not all bilinguals are the same: A meta-analysis of the moral foreign language effect

M Stankovic, B Biedermann, T Hamamura - Brain and Language, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging evidence shows bilinguals employ different decision-making strategies in their
foreign language compared to their native language (known as the Foreign Language …

Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect

N Del Maschio, F Crespi, F Peressotti… - Bilingualism …, 2022 - cambridge.org
In the present meta-analysis, we investigated the robustness and the magnitude of the
Foreign Language Effect (FLE)–that is, the putative effect of language context (native versus …

Foreign language affects the contribution of intentions and outcomes to moral judgment

J Geipel, C Hadjichristidis, L Surian - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
We examine whether the use of a foreign language, as opposed to the native language,
influences the relative weight intentions versus outcomes carry in moral evaluations. In …