Learning a foreign language makes people more rational, less biased

[Deep Dish]

Four experiments show thinking in a foreign language reduces the framing effect and two experiments show it reduces loss aversion, while in the foreign language. A pair of experiments show it reduces causality bias. It's not clear why, but it has been suggested a possible explanation is that the foreign language creates cognitive distance and emotional distance.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41489753

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1747021818755326

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

Seems to only cover learning a new language not those who natively speak more than one language. Interesting nonetheless.

 

[DukeLasale]

It means that they spending more time to focus the imperative side of that matter rather than projecting more emotional output?