Title:
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The Limits of the foreign language effect on decision-making: the case of the outcome bias and the representativeness heuristic
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Author:
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Vives, Marc-Lluís; Aparici Aznar, Melina; Costa, Albert, 1970-
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Abstract:
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Language context (native vs. foreign) affects people's choices and preferences in a wide
variety of situations. However, emotional reactions are a key component driving people's
choices in those situations. In six studies, we test whether foreign language context modifies
biases and the use of heuristics not directly caused by emotional reactions. We fail to find
evidence that foreign language context modifies the extent to which people suffer from outcome
bias (Experiment 1a & 1b) and the use of the representativeness heuristic (Experiment
2a & 2b). Furthermore, foreign language context does not modulate decision-making
in those scenarios even when emotion is brought into the context (Experiment 1c & 2c). Foreign
language context shapes decision-making, but the scope of its effects might be limited
to decision-making tendencies in which emotion plays a causal role. |
Abstract:
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This study was funded by the Agencia Estatal de InvestigacioÂn (AEI, National Research
Agency) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, European Regional Development
Fund) under projects PSI2017-84539-P and PSI2014-52181-P, the Catalan Government
(2017 SGR 268), and the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 613465ÐAThEME.
Marc-LluõÂs Vives was supported by a grant from the Spanish Government (BES-2015-071581). |
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-Language -Emotions -Decision making -Cognition -Taxonomy -Natural language -Experimental design -Cardiovascular diseases |
Rights:
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© 2018 Vives et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Article Article - Published version |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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