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| The Role of Deliberative Process in Foreign Language Effect of Moral Judgment |
| YIN Jun, GUAN Xu, HUA Rui, ZHANG Feng |
| Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211 |
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Abstract The current study recruited participants with Chinese as a native language and English as a foreign language and used the process dissociation procedure to explore whether and how deliberative process contributes to the moral foreign language effect. It was found that: (1) participants were more willing to accept the action of causing harm for maximizing overall outcomes (i.e., utilitarian action in which harming others is acceptable if it increases the well-being of a greater number of people) when using a foreign language than when using their native language, showing a clear foreign language effect in moral decision. (2) Compared with using a native language, using a foreign language to make a moral judgement increased the contribution of deliberative process (i.e., the utilitarian inclination), and meanwhile decreased the contribution of intuitive process (i.e., the deontological inclination in which harming others is wrong regardless of its consequences). Therefore, the current study indicated that both the decreased intuitive process and the increased deliberative process can account for the foreign language effect in moral decision.
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Published: 06 July 2018
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