Saturday, June 21, 2014

Some great articles about being bilingual

Blog as filing Cabinet:
Some articles about being bilingual. Blog as Filing Cabinet, received via email list from M Alohalani Boido.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/14/bilingual-brain-benefits_n_5453033.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living
People who speak two languages may process certain words faster
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bilingual-brains/>, particularly
if the word has the same meaning in both languages, according to a
Psychological Science study.

http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2014/05/27/language-diversity-in-america-how-seattle-stacks-up

Our Moral Tongue: Moral Judgments and language.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/moral-judgments-depend-on-what-language-we-are-speaking.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0
Imagine you are standing on a footbridge over rail tracks. An approaching
trolley is about to kill five people farther down the tracks. The only way
to stop it is to push a large man off the footbridge and onto the tracks
below. This will save the five people but kill the man. (It will not help
if you jump; you are not large enough.) Do you push him?
In a study recently published in the journal PloS One
<http://tinyurl.com/ml39zpw>, our two research teams, working
independently, discovered that when people are presented with the trolley
problem in a foreign language, they are more willing to sacrifice one
person to save five than when they are presented with the dilemma in their
native tongue.
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