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Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational

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May 11, 2012
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'Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language?'

To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language.

A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the U.S. and Korea found that thinking in a second language reduced deep-seated, misleading biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived.

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