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Thinking more or feeling less? Explaining the foreign-language effect on moral judgment
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Hayakawa, Sayuri; Tannenbaum, David; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Corey, Joanna Darrow, 1986-; Keysar, Boaz
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Abstract:
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Would you kill one person to save five? People are more willing to accept such utilitarian action when using a foreign language than when using their native language. In six experiments, we investigated why foreign-language use affects moral choice in this way. On the one hand, the difficulty of using a foreign language might slow people down and increase deliberation, amplifying utilitarian considerations of maximizing welfare. On the other hand, use of a foreign language might stunt emotional processing, attenuating considerations of deontological rules, such as the prohibition against killing. Using a process-dissociation technique, we found that foreign-language use decreases deontological responding but does not increase utilitarian responding. This suggests that using a foreign language affects moral choice not through increased deliberation but by blunting emotional reactions associated with the violation of deontological rules. |
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This project was supported by grants from the John Templeton Foundation (37775), the National Science Foundation (1520074), the Spanish Government (PSI2011-23033, Consolider Ingenio 2010 CSD2007-00048), the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (PSI2014-52181-P), the Catalan Government (SGR 2009-1521), and the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework (FP7/2007-2013 Cooperation Grant Agreement 613465-AThEME). J. D. Corey was supported by a grant from the Catalan Government (FI-DGR). S. Hayakawa was supported by a Harper Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Chicago. |
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Materia(s):
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-Moral judgment
-Foreign language
-Process dissociation
-Dual process
-Open data
-Open materials |
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The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Psychological Science, 28/10, October/2017 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2017
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SAGE Publications
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