I agree with Jiro, this appears to be an anti-rationality quote. The most straightforward interpretation of the data is that people didn’t understand the question as well when posed in a foreign language.
Chalk this one up not to emotion, but to deontology.
Possible that they understood the question, but hearing it in a foreign language meant cognitive strain, which meant they were already working in System 2. That’s my read anyway.
Given to totally fluent second-language speakers, I bet the effect vanishes.
I agree with Jiro, this appears to be an anti-rationality quote. The most straightforward interpretation of the data is that people didn’t understand the question as well when posed in a foreign language.
Chalk this one up not to emotion, but to deontology.
Possible that they understood the question, but hearing it in a foreign language meant cognitive strain, which meant they were already working in System 2. That’s my read anyway.
Given to totally fluent second-language speakers, I bet the effect vanishes.
It’s also possible that asking a different language causes subjects to think of the people in the dilemma as “not members of their tribe”.