{"pk":26227,"title":"Our morals really depends on our language:The foreign language effect within participants","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recent research has suggested that using a foreign languageto present hypothetical moral dilemmas increases the rate ofutilitarian judgments about those dilemmas (e.g., Greene et al,2001) and decreases incoherency between judgments inframing effect tasks (e.g., Tversky & Kahneman, 1981; seeCosta, Foucart, Arnon, Aparici, & Apesteguia, 2014; Costa,Foucart, Hayakawa, Aparici, Apesteguia, Heafner, & Keysar,2014; Keysar, Hayakawa, & An, 2012). However, existingresearch has mainly investigated this effect using between-participants designs (i.e., different participants in the foreignand native language conditions). Such designs are unable toexclude non-equivalent conditions as a confounding variable.In contrast, this study examined the foreign language effectusing a within-subjects design (i.e., all participants respondedto moral dilemmas (Greene et al, 2001) and framing effecttasks (Tversky & Kahneman, 1981) in both their native andforeign languages. The “foreign language effect” wasreplicated, excluding semantic non-equivalence betweenlanguage conditions as a potential confound. This resultsupports the hypothesis that the foreign language effect isindependent of meaning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"foreign language effect; moral dilemmas; framingeffect; individual differences"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61m0k50b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kuninori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nakamura","name_suffix":"","institution":"Seijo University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26227/galley/15863/download/"}]}