Do we make better decisions in a foreign language?

Financial Times

Would you kill a person in order to save five others? You’ve heard about this dilemma, but here’s the twist: Those among you who are native English speakers are less likely to agree than those for whom English is a foreign language. Just because I made you think about this in English.


From Weekly Filet #267, in March 2018. More on: #, #

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