Our moral choices are foreign to us
Core, Joanna D. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Hayakawa, Sayuri (University of Chicago. Department of Psychology)
Foucart, Alice (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Aparici Aznar, Melina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Evolutiva i de l'Educació)
Botella, Juan (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Facultad de Psicología)
Costa, Albert (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats)
Keysar, Boaz (University of Chicago. Department of Psychology)

Data:	2017
Resum:	Though moral intuitions and choices seem fundamental to our core being, there is surprising new evidence that people resolve moral dilemmas differently when they consider them in a foreign language (Cipolletti et al. , 2016; Costa et al. , 2014a; Geipel et al. , 2015): People are more willing to sacrifice 1 person to save 5 when they use a foreign language compared with when they use their native tongue. Our findings show that the phenomenon is robust across various contexts and that multiple factors affect it, such as the severity of the negative consequences associated with saving the larger group. This has also allowed us to better describe the phenomenon and investigate potential explanations. Together, our results suggest that the foreign language effect is most likely attributable to an increase in psychological distance and a reduction in emotional response.
Drets:	Tots els drets reservats.
Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Matèria:	Foreign language ; Bilingualism ; Moral psychology ; Decision-making
Publicat a:	Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 43 Núm. 7 (2017) , p. 1109-1128, ISSN 1939-1285

DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000356

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