The Foreign-Language Effect: Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 661-668

  Keysar, Boaz ^a   Hayakawa, Sayuri L ^a   An, Sun Gyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; decision making; emotions; foreign language learning; language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862178909     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611432178     Document Type: Article

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