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Researchers propose that using a foreign language gives people some emotional distance, allowing them to take the more utilitarian action. (Source: DePaul University)
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Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making

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Researchers propose that using a foreign language gives people some emotional distance, allowing them to take the more utilitarian action. (Source: DePaul University)

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2017

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By: Carla Reiter

If you could save the lives of five people by pushing another bystander in front of a train to his death, would you do it? And should it make any difference if that choice is presented in a language you speak, but isn’t your native tongue?

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