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Thinking in a Non-Native Language Makes you more Rational
Public Domain by Shi Ke
| When making complex moral decisions - such as taking decisions in moral dilemmas - humans tend to act more rationally and are more willing to break moral taboos when they use a non-native language. There is the assumption that this is so since they are then emotionally more distant. |