{"pk":25664,"title":"Effect is sure, but explanation is unsure:\nCloser investigation of the foreign language effect with Japanese participants","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The foreign language effect (Costa et al., 2014) refers to a\nphenomenon in which the response to a moral dilemma\ndepends on whether it is asked in a native or second language.\nThis study explored this effect with Japanese participants\nusing various types of moral dilemmas. Study 1 adopted\ntwelve variations of trolley dilemmas from Mikhail (2007).\nStudy 2 used seven types of moral dilemmas from Greene et\nal. (2001). The dilemmas required permissibility and\nunderstandability judgments. Results of the two studies\ndemonstrated the following two points. (1) Interactions\nbetween types of dilemmas (switch/footbridge) and language\n(native/foreign) were significant in both studies, indicating\nthat the foreign language effects were replicated consistent\nwith Costa et al. (2014). (2) Evidence that contradicts the\ntheoretical explanation of the foreign language effect was also\nfound.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"foreign language effect"},{"word":"moral dilemmas"},{"word":"mental\nrepresentation"},{"word":"dual process theory"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ft6673h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kuninori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nakamura","name_suffix":"","institution":"Seijo University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25664/galley/15288/download/"}]}