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Do native and non-native speakers make different judicial decisions?

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Publicado en:Bilingualism vol. 28, no. 1 (Jan 2025), p. 146
Autor principal: Rühle, Marie-Christine
Otros Autores: Lev-Ari, Shiri
Publicado:
Cambridge University Press
Materias:
Assaults
Nonnative speakers
Foreign language learning
Native speakers
Emotions
Influence
Native languages
Decision making
Bilingualism
Chinese languages
Native language
Fraud
English language
Crime
Bilingual people
Foreign languages
Medical treatment
Offenses
Language
Court decisions
Moral Issues
Language Usage
Value Judgment
English (Second Language)
Age Differences
Meta Analysis
Exhibits
Second Languages
Sentences
Evidence
Feedback (Response)
Psychological Patterns
Experiments
Individual Differences
Pregnancy
Emotional Response
English
Imagery
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Resumen:Bilinguals experience diminished emotion when using their foreign compared with their native language. The diminished emotion has been shown to lead to more lenient moral evaluations in a foreign language. Here we show that non-native speakers of English are less sensitive to emotional mitigating circumstances of a crime than native speakers, presumably because of the diminished experience emotion. This can lead non-native speakers to provide harsher, rather than more lenient, evaluations. Native and non-native speakers of English recommended sentence duration for crimes committed because of mitigating emotional circumstances (e.g., fraud to pay spouse's medical treatment) or for selfish reasons (e.g., buying luxury goods). Native English speakers differentiated more between the two types of scenarios than non-native speakers did. The study thus provides preliminary evidence that processing information in a foreign language can influence decisions, and that the directionality of the effect depends on the role of emotion in the context.
ISSN:1366-7289
1469-1841
DOI:10.1017/S136672892400018X
Fuente:Arts & Humanities Database