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Muda, Rafal; Niszczota, Pawel; Bialek, Michal; Conway, Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Moral dilemmas entail deciding whether to cause harm to maximize overall outcomes, such as killing 1 person to save 5. Past work has demonstrated that people are more willing to accept causing such outcome-maximizing harm when they read dilemmas in a foreign language they speak rather than their native language. Presumably this effect is due to…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Second Language Learning, Reading Processes, Decision Making