Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making

Fil: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina.

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Autores principales: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico, Kogan, Boris, Barttfeld, Pablo, García, Adolfo M.
Otros Autores: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5844-6203
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11086/553226
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000312
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topic Bilingualism
Moral foreign-language
Moral foreign-language effect
Footbridge dilemma
Foreign-language proficiency
Modulating factors
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Moral foreign-language
Moral foreign-language effect
Footbridge dilemma
Foreign-language proficiency
Modulating factors
Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico
Kogan, Boris
Barttfeld, Pablo
García, Adolfo M.
Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making
topic_facet Bilingualism
Moral foreign-language
Moral foreign-language effect
Footbridge dilemma
Foreign-language proficiency
Modulating factors
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García, Adolfo M.
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title Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making
title_short Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making
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title_fullStr Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making
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spelling I10-R141-11086-5532262024-08-09T06:39:57Z Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico Kogan, Boris Barttfeld, Pablo García, Adolfo M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5844-6203 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6936-0114 Bilingualism Moral foreign-language Moral foreign-language effect Footbridge dilemma Foreign-language proficiency Modulating factors info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fil: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico. Universidad de San Andrés. Centro de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Fil: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Kogan, Boris. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata; Argentina. Fil: Kogan, Boris. Universidad de San Andrés. Centro de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Fil: Kogan, Boris. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: García, Adolfo M. Universidad de San Andrés. Centro de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Fil: García, Adolfo M. University of California. Global Brain Health Institute; USA. Fil: García, Adolfo M. Trinity College Dublin; Ireland. Fil: García, Adolfo M. Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Facultad de Humanidades. Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura; Chile. Socio-cognitive research on bilinguals points to a moral foreign-language effect (MFLE), with more utilitarian choices (e.g., sacrificing someone to save more people) for moral dilemmas presented in the second language (L2) relative to the first language. Yet, inconsistent results highlight the influence of subject-level variables, including a critical underexplored factor: L2 proficiency (L2p). Here we provide a systematic review of 57 bilingualism studies on moral dilemmas, showing that L2p rarely modulates responses to impersonal dilemmas, but it does impact personal dilemmas (with MFLEs proving consistent at intermediate L2p levels but unsystematic at high L2p levels). We propose an empirico-theoretical framework to conceptualize such patterns, highlighting the impact of L2p on four affective mediating factors: mental imagery, inhibitory control, prosocial behavior and numerical processing. Finally, we outline core challenges for the field. These insights open new avenues at the crossing of bilingualism and social cognition research. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fil: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico. Universidad de San Andrés. Centro de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Fil: Teitelbaum Dorfman, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Kogan, Boris. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata; Argentina. Fil: Kogan, Boris. Universidad de San Andrés. Centro de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Fil: Kogan, Boris. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: García, Adolfo M. Universidad de San Andrés. Centro de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Fil: García, Adolfo M. University of California. Global Brain Health Institute; USA. Fil: García, Adolfo M. Trinity College Dublin; Ireland. Fil: García, Adolfo M. Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Facultad de Humanidades. Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura; Chile. 2024-08-08T20:23:25Z 2024-08-08T20:23:25Z 2024-04-25 article Teitelbaum Dorfman, F., Kogan, B., Barttfeld, P., & García, A.M. (2024). Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728924000312 http://hdl.handle.net/11086/553226 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000312 eng Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/