Hayakawa, SayuriTannenbaum, DavidCosta, Albert, 1970-Corey, Joanna Darrow, 1986-Keysar, Boaz2018-07-262018-07-262017Hayakawa S, Tannenbaum D, Costa A, Corey JD, Keysar B. Thinking more or feeling less? Explaining the foreign-language effect on moral judgment. Psychol Sci. 2017;28(10): 1387-97. DOI: 10.1177/09567976177209440956-7976http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35286Would you kill one person to save five? People are more willing to accept such utilitarian action when using a foreign language than when using their native language. In six experiments, we investigated why foreign-language use affects moral choice in this way. On the one hand, the difficulty of using a foreign language might slow people down and increase deliberation, amplifying utilitarian considerations of maximizing welfare. On the other hand, use of a foreign language might stunt emotional processing, attenuating considerations of deontological rules, such as the prohibition against killing. Using a process-dissociation technique, we found that foreign-language use decreases deontological responding but does not increase utilitarian responding. This suggests that using a foreign language affects moral choice not through increased deliberation but by blunting emotional reactions associated with the violation of deontological rules.application/pdfengThe final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Psychological Science, 28/10, October/2017 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2017info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797617720944Moral judgmentForeign languageProcess dissociationDual processOpen dataOpen materialsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess