Your Morals Depend on Language

On the Media | Jun 20, 2014

Would you sacrifice one person to save the lives of five others? Your answer may depend on whether you consider the problem in your native tongue or a secondary one. Brooke speaks with psychologists Boaz Keysar and Albert Costa, who say that our solutions to moral dilemmas are affected by the language we use to think about them.

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