"Piensa" twice: On the foreign language effect in decision making

Cognition

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 236-254

  Costa, Albert ^a,b   Foucart, Alice ^a   Arnon, Inbal ^c   Aparici, Melina ^d   Apesteguia, Jose ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive fluency; Emotional resonance; Foreign language effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AVERSION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; UNCERTAINTY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890097680     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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