ArticlePloS one2018
The limits of the foreign language effect on decision-making: The case of the outcome bias and the representativeness heuristic.
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- The Impact of Foreign Language on Meta-Reasoning in Moral Decisions.Journal of cognition · 2026Article
- Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition?Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Testing the Foreign Language Effect on Cognitive Reflection in Older Adults.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Using a Foreign Language Changes Medical Judgments of Preventative Care.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- fMRI evidence reveals emotional biases in bilingual decision making.Brain structure & function · 2021Article
- Health policy and systems research publications in Latin America warrant the launching of a new specialised regional journal.Health research policy and systems · 2020Article
- Recycling in Babel: The Impact of Foreign Languages in Rule Learning.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Thinking in a Non-native Language: A New Nudge?Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Deliberate reasoning is not affected by language.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Language context (native vs. foreign) affects people's choices and preferences in a wide variety of situations. However, emotional reactions are a key component driving people's choices in those situations. In six studies, we test whether foreign language context modifies biases and the use of heuristics not directly caused by emotional reactions. We fail to find evidence that foreign language context modifies the extent to which people suffer from outcome bias (Experiment 1a & 1b) and the use of the representativeness heuristic (Experiment 2a & 2b). Furthermore, foreign language context does not modulate decision-making in those scenarios even when emotion is brought into the context (Experiment 1c & 2c). Foreign language context shapes decision-making, but the scope of its effects might be limited to decision-making tendencies in which emotion plays a causal role.
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