Foreign Language Effect and Psychological Distance

Autor/inn/en	Shin, Hong Im; Kim, Juyoung
Titel	Foreign Language Effect and Psychological Distance
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46 (2017) 6, S.1339-1352 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-017-9498-7
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Korean; English (Second Language); Moral Values; Decision Making; Psycholinguistics; Intuition; Emotional Response; Native Language; Bilingualism; Correlation; Conflict; Comparative Analysis; Language Usage; Measurement Techniques; Geometric Concepts; Labeling (of Persons); Contrastive Linguistics; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Koreanisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Psycholinguistik; Emotionales Verhalten; Bilingualismus; Korrelation; Konflikt; Sprachgebrauch; Messtechnik; Elementare Geometrie; Labeling-Ansatz; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik
Abstract	Does using a foreign language result in forming different moral decisions than using our mother tongue? Two studies were conducted to investigate whether there is a relationship between foreign language effects (differences between native vs. foreign language conditions) and psychological distance. Study 1 tested four moral dilemmas adapted from Greene et al. ("Cognition" 107: 1144-1155, 2008). Non-fluent Korean-English bilingual participants (N = 161) indicated decisions regarding four moral dilemmas in either Korean or English languages. The study found that for personal moral conflict situations, in which emotion and automatic intuition were more important than deliberation, there were significant differences in ratios of utilitarian decisions between the native language (L1) and the foreign language (L2) conditions. The participants tended to make more utilitarian decisions in L2 than in L1, which implies reduced emotionality in L2. Study 2 examined whether the psychological distance increased using the foreign language (English) utilizing an automatic self-test. Nonproficient Korean-English bilinguals (N = 26) formed associations between three kinds of geometric shapes (ellipses, rectangles and triangles) and three kinds of labels ("me", "friends" and "others"). The results of the study found the self-bias effect decreased when labels were presented in the foreign language (in English). This implies that the foreign language effect resulted from the reduced emotional response, and deliberation in decision making which may result from increased psychological distance. (As Provided).
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