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Communicating in a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making
« on: August 19, 2017, 11:36:13 am »
Communicating in a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making

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    August 17, 2017
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    University of Chicago
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    If you could save the lives of five people by pushing another bystander in front of a train to his death, would you do it? And should it make any difference if that choice is presented in a language you speak, but isn't your native tongue? Psychologists know communicating in a foreign language matters. In a new study, they take a major step toward understanding why.
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Re: Communicating in a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2017, 03:08:21 pm »
Must be the real reason for bureaucratic gobbledygook.
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Re: Communicating in a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2017, 12:04:37 am »
Interesting. 
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