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Bilingual people make colder moral choices in their second language

The same dilemma, the same person, a different answer - depending on the language it was posed in.

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Presented with moral dilemmas in a foreign language they know well, people become measurably more willing to accept harming one to save several. The leading explanation is reduced emotional resonance: a second language keeps a certain distance, and that distance shifts the judgement.

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