Costa, Albert, 1970-Foucart, AliceHayakawa, SayuriAparici Aznar, MelinaApesteguía, JoséHeafner, JoyKeysar, Boaz2016-02-172016-02-172014Costa A, Foucart A, Hayakawa S, Aparici M, Apesteguia J, Heafner J, Keysar B. Your morals depend on language. PLoS ONE. 2014;9(4):1-7. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094842.1932-6203http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25861Should you sacrifice one man to save five? Whatever your answer, it should not depend on whether you were asked the/nquestion in your native language or a foreign tongue so long as you understood the problem. And yet here we report/nevidence that people using a foreign language make substantially more utilitarian decisions when faced with such moral/ndilemmas. We argue that this stems from the reduced emotional response elicited by the foreign language, consequently/nreducing the impact of intuitive emotional concerns. In general, we suggest that the increased psychological distance of/nusing a foreign language induces utilitarianism. This shows that moral judgments can be heavily affected by an orthogonal/nproperty to moral principles, and importantly, one that is relevant to hundreds of millions of individuals on a daily basis.application/pdfeng© 2014 Costa et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits/nunrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094842info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess