CognitionHumansMultilingualismChoice BehaviorFemaleMale
Embarrassment guides language choice.
Becky K Y Lau, Veronica Vazquez-Olivieri, Claire Guang, Boaz Keysar
Published: 202610.1016/j.cognition.2025.106355
Abstract
For billions of bilinguals, many communicative acts involve a choice between languages. Here, we evaluate the theory that bilinguals choose a language to regulate their emotional reactions. We present four experiments demonstrating that language choi…
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